efene programming language

I’ve decided that structs are the way to go for efene and removed all traces of “objects” from the code.

The reasons to do this:

• structs are a real data structure and not a closure trick to look like a data structure.
• You can introspect them, operate on them, dump and see what’s inside. This allow people to write code that interact with structs in ways I can’t imagine now. “objects” were hard to modify.
• structs allow nested structs
• friendly syntax to access and modify a struct
• meaningful and simple error messages
• syntax to define structs ad-hoc
• map 1:1 with JSON
• look like JSON

of course if you liked objects they are 100%  implemented as a library so you can get the source from some commits ago and use it.

now some code using new functions in the struct module.

>>> Me = {firstname: "mariano", lastname: "guerra", location: {city: "cordoba", country: "argentina"}}
{struct,[{firstname,"mariano"},
         {lastname,"guerra"},
         {location,{struct,[{city,"cordoba"},{country,"argentina"}]}}]}
>>> struct.fields(Me)
[firstname,lastname,location]
>>> struct.has(Me, firstname)
true
>>> struct.has(Me, email)
false