Stuart Rackham

Markdown single newlines are rendered as paragraph boundaries

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Single newlines are rendered as paragraph boundaries and consequently Markdown documentation not formatted correctly. For example, compare the opening paragraph this README on Github and on nest.land: - https://nest.land/package/drake -...

Order version tags in the deno.land third party modules drop-down versions list by semantic version number (ignoring the 'v' prefix). Currently (1) if a Github project containing a mix of...

**V version:** V 0.3.1 ac64318.f922ed0 **OS:** linux, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (VM) **What did you do?** Compiled code using the time module with the `-freestanding` compiler build option. ```sh $ cat...

Formatting conventions

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What are the recommended Virgil documentation and code formatting conventions? The documentation (`.md` files) mostly indents code with 4 spaces per indent. Looks like code (`.v3` files) uses tabs for...

Lambda support

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https://github.com/titzer/virgil/blob/3709c05fc9e61734732d5eedb269acff3b8a0ed0/doc/tutorial/Functions.md?plain=1#L174 I guess this means anonymous functions with closures? For example: ``` def intSeq() -> () -> int { var i = 0; return () -> int { i =...

Top-level namespacing

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How can you disambiguate same-named components and classes from different source files (aka the module problem)? I see that this issue was addressed as as "Future Work" in the 2013...

Why is Virgil so fast?

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I ran a _Hello World + Fibonacci_ benchmark comparing Virgil with Rust and TinyGo (the two most often cited Wasm compilers) — the results seem to good to be true!...

UTF-8 string literals

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Does Virgil support UTF-8 string literals? The documentation suggests it does: https://github.com/titzer/virgil/blob/3038dead280099b736f312e2b091b053cb0cfbf7/doc/lib-issues.txt#L116 Here I've inserted the copyright character in a string literal: ``` $ cat hello.v3 def main() { System.puts("Hello...

jodoc does not process js comments generated by CoffeeScript

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Block comments generated by CoffeeScript are indented to align with the code rendering the Markdown unusable e.g. ``` ###* # Test file CoffeeScript Lorum ipsum... ### x = 42 ```...

Why does the pcre module use PCRE and not PCRE2?

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I'm curious to know the reason why the newer PCRE2 library is not used (the older PCRE library ["is now at end of life, and is no longer being actively...