I've just read the article on OSNews and looked at some of the language reference.  It all looks very exciting and exactly the kind of language I would like to use (I was considering learning ML but that can wait!)

Just a few questions:

- are there any facilities for type introspection?  and attaching meta-data
elements (e.g. to class, function, etc.)?
- can I cast from an array of objects to an array of my type?
- is there support for dynamically loading modules?
- is there any will to standardise the language?

Tremendous effort and maximum Kudos to Walter et al. - looks like you've put a lot of thought into the design.

(ps. the Gnome guys are looking for a language just like this)

Colin JN Breame wrote:

>I've just read the article on OSNews and looked at some of the language
>reference.  It all looks very exciting and exactly the kind of language I would
>like to use (I was considering learning ML but that can wait!)
>
>Just a few questions:
>
>- are there any facilities for type introspection?  and attaching meta-data
>elements (e.g. to class, function, etc.)?
>  
>
Not yet.  Well there is RTTI.  See http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?HowTo/RealtimeTypeInformation.  This has been much-discussed.  One of the number one questions I believe.

>- can I cast from an array of objects to an array of my type?
>  
>
Sure.

class A {  }
class B {  }

void main()
{
   A a[100] = new A[100];
   B b[100] = new B[100];
     a[] = (A[]) b[];
}  

>- is there support for dynamically loading modules?
>  
>
LoadLibarary, just like in C.

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