| 4 Aug 2021 |
 dzaima | (also breaks things if in the future you're able to introspect blocks) | 17:46:16 |
 Marshall | Well, you'd need a way to determine if something is really a block. | 17:47:29 |
| Marshall | What would •math.Sin be? It's not actually a system value. | 17:47:39 |
| dzaima | if •-things were primitives, there'd be an obvious answer of "primitive" | 17:48:03 |
| dzaima | (more somplicated is what •file.chars is) | 17:48:22 |
 suhr | From a practical point of view, it's hard to use a language if you don't know if system functions even exist. | 17:48:32 |
| suhr | So it would be nice to have at least some documentation. | 17:48:57 |
| dzaima | •-things are more like primitives with side-effects, than blocks that aren't blocks | 17:49:01 |
| suhr | Maybe as a documentation to CBQN. | 17:49:43 |
| Marshall | There is the spec at least. I'll try to get to the more important system functions sooner. | 17:50:05 |
| Marshall | The online version has •listSys, giving a list of existing system function names. Would be nice to have that in CBQN. | 17:51:00 |
| Marshall | And also •ListKeys, which you can apply to a namespace. | 17:51:46 |
| dzaima | marking •Show as a block makes the formatter display it as *function* :| | 18:01:51 |
| dzaima | (and my "marking" I mean adding in a ton of hacks everywhere because •Show implementation-wise is literally no different to +) | 18:03:55 |
| Marshall | JS does this too. I should probably just let the implementation format every non-character atom? | 18:06:08 |
| dzaima | but it is passing tests, doing what it should, and i've pushed it. But I still fully hate it and it's stupid and I hope to revert it one day because it's stupid and it sucks | 18:07:45 |
| dzaima | (if i had things my way things wouldn't even ever check for purity because that's already stupid and fills are stupid) | 18:08:37 |
| dzaima | (should probably rename dzaima/BQN to JBQN or something so one day there could be an actual dzaima/BQN) | 18:09:32 |
| dzaima | (JBQN sounds a bit too much like J though) | 18:10:08 |
| Marshall | You don't have to name every language you design after yourself… | 18:10:11 |
| dzaima | but it'd literally be dzaima's BQN and nothing else | 18:10:34 |
| dzaima | like dzaima/APL which exists purely for me to be able to make changes to APL that I want with no restrictions | 18:11:06 |
| Marshall | Pushed code to make the formatter call the •Glyph input on decompose 1 as well as 0. Not super well-tested so it could have errors. | 18:41:54 |
| dzaima | pushed CBQN giving a nicer thing for blocks | 18:48:21 |
| Marshall | Oh, it ends up passing in namespaces too. I guess I'll make JS print the keys but not the values, since those can't change. | 18:54:58 |
| dzaima | oh, namespaces is annoying | 18:55:40 |
| Marshall | I think a printout like {var1‿var2⇐} would look all right. Maybe truncated if there are a huge number of keys. | 18:57:10 |
| dzaima | pushed that | 19:02:43 |
| Marshall | Spent too long deciding on the commit message, you beat me. | 19:04:17 |
| Marshall | I like that it has no edge cases because {⇐} is a valid empty namespace. | 19:04:48 |
