Read Update #1 Syntax Error I addressed two problems since last update: A bad error message, and an image loading error. The bad error
I’ve started a journey to make Leaf more visual. You may have seen some of my videos about complexity, complete with shaky mouse drawn
While writing some error handling helpers, during my algorithm stream, I encountered a defect. It’s a tricky one dealing with the passing of shared arguments
You’ve heard the term, you’ve probably even used them, but what exactly is a closure? It’s a combination of data and code that have become
Yesterday I finished a rather simple Kata from Codewars: the sum of a sequence of numbers. It was straight forward to implement, but I felt
Error handling is hard, and it’s made harder by a rich error hierarchy. Programs that successfully handle errors tend to have only a couple of
Finally, a big step for Leaf: something that could be called an actual program. Over the weekend I finished a program that loads a file,
As types are a keystone in Leaf, working with them must be fluid and simple. I recently improved this area by adding named constructors and
Language support for caching sucks. Despite an ever present need to cache data and calculations most languages require the programmer to do all the work.
I came upon a problem with bitwise complement (logical not): it isn’t safe. It’s nothing new, but it really registered while implementing the logical operations