MiniD 1.0 released!

[Alan Knowles]

For reference, ecmascript v4 (aka Javascript 2) specifications allows a 
'strict' mode where all sorts of type definitions can be defined and 
caught by the compiler / runtime etc.

It's not a high priority for me working on dmdscript, but I am using 
that as the roadmap... (I already have class syntax though and have 
fixed the scoping issues with the original code)..

Regards
Alan

Christopher Wright wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> After more than a year of brainstorming, writing, re-writing, taking 
>> ideas from other languages and generally having a good time, I've come 
>> to what I feel is a good place to call it 1.0.
>>
>> == What is MiniD? ==
>>
>> MiniD is a scripting language written entirely in D, designed around 
>> D's features and with D's semantics in mind.  It's based mainly off of 
>> Lua and Squirrel, with influences from D and JavaScript.
> 
> Is there any chance of support for optional strong typing? That's my 
> main beef with Javascript; the one time I've used it for a production 
> system, it took six hours to do something that would have been fifteen 
> minutes with strong typing (due to a single bug), and I never did 
> accomplish what I set out to do.
> 
> At least function arguments should be typed, or typeable, in an 
> object-oriented language. Lua doesn't need strong typing as much because 
> it only has primitives, functions, and tables. But MiniD is 
> object-oriented, and the only alternative to typing is reflection.[1] 
> Maybe some sort of 'where' clause?
> function do_stuff(arg1, arg2) where arg2 : ExpectedClass {}
> 
> -cbw
> 
> [1] And that's rather ugly and long-winded:
> if (!is (typeof(argument) == ExpectedClass))
>    assert(false);