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...unctional languages > such as OCaml. The variables in the individual 'as' clauses are never in > scope unless the assignment to that variable actually succeeds, so > there's no chance of seeing an uninitialized variable. Is it run-time or compile-time? The former is Java's insanceof/C++ RTTI, the later has not many uses... > In any case, I don't want to go on about this too long - at least not > until the compiler is in better shape to be shown to the world. I still > need to work on closures, reflection, garbage collection, interface > proxies, stack dumps,...

It was a little over two years ago that I saw Chris give a tech talk on LLVM at Google, and that was when I knew that there was a way that I could actually build the programming language that I'd been thinking about for so long. Well, the compiler is still not done, even though I've been plugging steadily away at it in my free time. However, a lot of progress has been made recently,