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Rochus
on Dec 14, 2024
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The Luon programming language
Luon doesn't directly support tables, but instead supports records, arrays and hashmaps (which internally use tables). Since it's statically typed you can only store nil to a field or element if it is of a structured type.
akkartik
on Dec 14, 2024
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What's a structured type? Something that has fields or elements?
Rochus
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Records, arrays and hashmaps are structured types; in contrast to original Oberon, Luon has no pointer type, but reference semantics instead.
masklinn
on Dec 14, 2024
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So Luon has reference types and value types, and reference types are always nullable?
Rochus
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Yes, but value types are only basic types. Structured types only have reference semantics and are nil by default.
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