The Fan Programming Language

[Paul D. Anderson]

BCS Wrote:

> Reply to Paul,
> 
> > there is only one keyword ("const") with multiple meanings -- const
> > variables, const classes and const functions... And there is only one
> > kind of immutability -- const objects can never change. No mention is
> > made of transitivity. I don't know whether it is ignored or implicit.
> 
> "Fan runs on the JVM and the .NET runtime. It manages this by writing to 
> a temporary intermediate format, which then gets further compiled to the 
> right bytecode."
> 
> 
> Source -> Fan-IL -> JVM/MSIL -> bin -> micro-ops -> ...
> 
> How far removed from the actual cpu can you get!
> 
> (Note: I'm not saying this is a problem...)
> 
> 

Yes, it is emphatically not a down-to-the-hardware language.

Also, upon further review, there is a second sort of "const". Any class member may have the "readonly" attribute. This attribute means that the setter is private. No guarantee of immutablity is implied.