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Comment by librasteve

2 days ago

Well, maybe. The problem is that mature languages and ecosystems are mature and new features have to be shoehorned in. Raku (https://raku.org) on the other hand is intentionally designed as a braid of sub languages (slangs) for quoting, regex, PEG, etc and you can easily make your own slang with eg. https://raku.land/zef:lizmat/Slangify so you get your DSL as a drop down language in a general PL setting.

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jolt42  2 days ago

There's so many languages out there, I reject Raku out-of-hand simply since IMO the type should follow the variable name.

  • lizmat  1 day ago

    You mean like:

        my $a of Int = 42;
    say $a;  # 42

    or

        my $a of Int = "foo";'       
    # Type check failed in assignment to $a; expected Int but got Str ("foo")

?

  • librasteve  2 days ago

    hmmm Raku is C style

      int number;

 … you choose Pascal style

  number : Integer;

    • jolt42  1 day ago

      Very good, I wrote Pascal many years ago, but I was thinking more Kotlin/Scala (right?) vs Java.