I’m reconsidering the necessity of the conditional ternary operator in Leaf. I’m having troubles coming up with a comfortable, flexible, and unambiguous syntax. The traditional
A question recently asked why a ‘constexpr’ function in C++ may comprise only a return statement. It’s a good question. On quick glance the restriction
C++11 introduced a perfect forwarding mechanism for template parameters. The key part is the ability for a template parameter to match any input without any
Does ‘return’ always cause a function to return? Surprisingly the answer is “no”. Indeed there are situations in which ‘break’ may not always break from
There’s something wrong when a language allows 1/2 to equal 0. It’s easy to understand why this happens, and perhaps it’s even easy to forgive
Below I’ve tried to catalog some of the typical uses of references in programming. My aim is to clarify the role references play in a
For Leaf, I need to parse decimal numbers to retain the exact value of the input without rounding. I assumed such a library would exist
One of the problems with C++ is the way it handles type conversion. It inherits a lot of implicit conversion from C and then adds
I’ve been reworking how I handle basic type conversion in Leaf. This is a mechanism which allows implicit conversion of simple types. As part of
Not all languages are made with the same purpose in mind. When it comes to designing a new language like Leaf, it’s important to choose