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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Bart's Language
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Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

> On 2025-03-21, bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
>> On 20/03/2025 23:45, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-03-20, Waldek Hebisch <antispam@fricas.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In this case, just write it like that, and only adjust it for the
>>>>> somewhat different syntax:
>>>>>
>>>>>    func foo:int =
>>>>>        let int c := c1(10)
>>>>>        let int b := c + c2(2)
>>>>>        let int a := b+c3(c)
>>>>>        bar()
>>>>>        baz()
>>>>>        return c
>>>>>    end
>>
>>    >> In your description you wrote that declarations can be written
>>
>>>> "out of order" and compiler will rearrange them in correct
>>>> order.  That looked like great opportunity to write obfuscated
>>>> code.
>>>
>>> I made a language feature like that:  mlet.
>>>
>>> https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-2B3072E9
>>>
>>> This allows for circular references in order to support
>>> the construction of lazy objects:
>>>
>>> 1> (mlet ((a (lcons 1 b))
>>>            (b (lcons 0 a)))
>>>      (take 20 a))
>>> (1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0)
>>
>> I don't understand what's going on above;  the example here is a
>> bit clearer, other than that z at the end:
>
> What's going on is that  [...]

Just a short reminder that this is comp.lang.c, and nothing about
any of the discussions above has anything to do with C.