On 26/09/2013, at 12:27 PM, srean wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:24 PM, john skaller
> <skal...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> The bottom line is this: if you actually want to learn Felix you have
>> to follow my instructions. Stop complaining about rants in the
>> mailing list, stop reading a heap of crap.
>>
>> WRITE SOME CODE.
>
>
> Indeed! in fact I started with arrays because numeric heavy code is
> what I do. Got stuck with type classes in the process because arrays
> are built on it.
You don't need to understand typeclasses to use arrays
although it helps. Documentation would help too :)
The best way is probably to write some dumb code,
post it, and I'll show how to improve it.
I have had a lot of problems trying to figure out exactly
what an array actually is. So the type class structure is
complex and may not be right yet.
This is all complicated by compact linear types.
At least the "assignment is setting pointer"
doesn't work with them (because the subcomponents
can't be addressed by an ordinary machine pointer).
Worse, if you have say a pointer to a tuple:
var px : &(int * 2 * 2) = new (1, true, true);
all hell would break loose if you got a pointer to the second
component and cast it to a pointer to 2 * 2 because that's
a compact linear type, and thus a single int.
The representation of int * 2 * 2 is an ordinary struct
with 3 addressable components.
> Isnt it amazing how far one can push the GCD idea !
I guess ..
--
john skaller
skal...@users.sourceforge.net
http://felix-lang.org
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