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One small concern with the dereferencing logic

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I really like the dereferencing logic. It's good for refactors. For example in C, when you have a reference `x` and supply it to a function, you would do `f(x)`....

porky11

Return currently uses the same syntax as labels

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I think, removing the `:` after `return` would be less confusing.

porky11

Blocks will take parameters, for example by specifying them using `with` before them. For example now a factorial would look like this: ``` fn factorial(x: i32) { var result: i32...

porky11

I'd suggest using pairs of `/*` and `*/` like in C, since you already use `//` for single line comments like C.

porky11

Simple usage to simplify return: ``` if some_condition { // supplies 1 and 2, will return 2 goto return 1, 2; } else { // supplies 2 and 3, will...

porky11

Discontinuity in `if` vs `loop` syntaxes

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At the moment, you'd need to scan down to the end of a block to see if it `loop`s, whereas with an `if`, you can tell right from the start...

Magnogen