@DynamicSquid Due to this change, Night will have to be unaffiliated from SoN

StringentDev

ima at school. @firefish

@Lethdev2019 lol then how are you sending messages, I just got home

@KelpHead

Slice the 8, because its 12 now(including me lol)

nice grammar lol

StringentDev

they can't block it even if they tried. @firefish

@firefish I send messages all the time at school. I also get my phone taien away from me all the time at school

@DynamicSquid Have you seen this @poopyarmy nut? He's spamming the repltalk rules and gave me 68 flipping pings

LTI2

@firefish
"But Why?"
"We work for the FBI"
"But Why?"
"Welp, time to lock you in the brainwashing chamber."

@LTI2
manager walks in with a rat on his shoulder
"Eh, what's this?"
"This is our manager. He takes care of the chef's rat."
customer punches rat
"You WHAT?"
customer runs away

"Wait where did the chef's rat go?"
"I don't know, but something is moving in your Slice of Night pizza box."
@firefish

@GeneralBaker
"Mine? I only just came in. I think the pizza box belongs to the nut who just ran out of here."

"But you obviously came for our famous Slice of Night, so we had it prepared in advance. We also make assumptions about our customers, so we prepared this 'mystery meat' just for you."
"You happen to be correct, I love mystery meat."
Customer takes a bite
"Good flavor."
Chef runs in
"WHERE IS MY RAT?!"
@firefish

@GeneralBaker
"Uh... maybe there?" pointing towards the mystery meat

"YOU'RE FIRED! AND SO ARE YOU! FOR FEEDING THIS MAN MY RAT!"

"Wait... this is rat?" pukes

"No really, the rat is OK! I didn't cook it!"
customer pukes again
@firefish

@GeneralBaker
customer can't hear because he is still vomiting his dinner from yesterday out

"Make sure you at least give us a 1 star review on the way out." - chef
"ARE YOU KIDDING?! I AM GIVING YOU A FREAKING 5 STAR REVIEW FOR THIS! NOW NO ONE WILL EVER COME HERE AGAIN!!!"
"Please no! You will ruin me!"
@firefish

@GeneralBaker
food hygiene inspector enters
"So, what's this?"

"My customer ate my pet rat."

"Good grief! Close your restaurant. How on earth did you manage to get business?!?!"

"It's ok. This customer already destroyed my 1 star review record." @firefish

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@GeneralBaker walks in "Where's the Slices of Night?"
Manager: "Leave, this place is closed"
Me: "Aw, now I don't get a slice of night. Well, I guess I'm going to Subway."
plays 4"33'

SwaroopBappanad

@firefish Ratatouille confirmed.

@SwaroopBappanad I knew this was going to pop up.

@firefish guys stop cloggin up my notifications

@DynamicSquid Just pretend it was the poopypants guy off spamming again

RahulChoubey1

@DynamicSquid ~~slice of pizza~~ indeed

@RahulChoubey1 ~~slice of slice~~ indeed

@DynamicSquid help @realTronsi dared me to code in a script font

realTronsi

@firefish why are you exposing me everywhere :(

@realTronsi inviting him

@DynamicSquid HOW MANY CYCLES DID I GET FROM THIS COMMENT AGAIN? 69 that's right i think

@firefish lol. oh I'm working on the interpreter for v4 now and I've encountered a bump. not yet sure if the bump is small, or if the bump is an entire fricking mountain. i'll let you know soon

@DynamicSquid oki, I'll carry on rEmAkInG NiGhT In rUsT grilling apricots on the barbecue

@DynamicSquid NIGHT'S DYNAMICALLY TYPED NOW HELP ME PLOZ GOSH NO OW HELP THE VM DIED OF DEAD @fuzzyastrocat

@firefish I already made a language in Rust https://github.com/DynamicSquid/mirror

@DynamicSquid I saw it, use cargo please, the include! macro is ew

@DynamicSquid Due to this change, Night will have to be unaffiliated from SoN

@firefish I tried using cargo but it's too complicated. Also I don't have time cause it's for a school project and it's due tomorrow and I have so many buggies to fix

@DynamicSquid

cargo new mirror

you're done

@firefish what does that command do?

@DynamicSquid creates a new directory called mirror
creates a directory called src inside it
you put your files there
instead of include! you import modules
done

@firefish Lole

@firefish okay so I've been deeply thinking about it and I think it works

@fuzzyastrocat SoN is no longer the Slice Of Night, it just SliceVM now

@firefish Well, that's fine... plenty of langs have a purpose-built vm, like Python

@DynamicSquid oki! just SoN is now SliceVM, and night is nolonger c-style, so yeah a lot to think about

@fuzzyastrocat just removing a lot of night references is reeeeeeeeeee

@DynamicSquid Dang I wish my school projects could be that cool...

@fuzzyastrocat Oh, about lang dev, if I want my lang to be good, it has to be different. Right now, it's very similar to Python. Aside from catching some errors at compile time, what are some interesting things that I could add to Night?

@DynamicSquid Dang I wish my school projects could be that cool...

@fuzzyastrocat Yeah, and not to draw out pictures of castles... (our history teacher was generous last year, not so much now)

@fuzzyastrocat No my teacher isn't asking us to build a language lol. My teacher gave out a final assignment and said show me your skills

@DynamicSquid Expressions: anonymus functions.
e.g.

set f = (a,b,c> a+b+c);

is equivalent to

def f(a, b, c) {
    return a + b + c;
}

@firefish Social (or History) is the most boring class ngl

@firefish Lol, history class ≠ art class

@DynamicSquid That's my point... I've never been asked "Show me your skills in relation to this class's subject matter". It's always "here's the project, do this."

@fuzzyastrocat thou hast been pungethed to the new repl

@firefish lambdas? I'm definitly going to add those in, but Python already has those

@fuzzyastrocat Oh lol, that sucks :(

@fuzzyastrocat What language do you do at school? Make a interpreter/compiler for that language and do the assignment in your interpreter/compiler :)

@DynamicSquid You could add:

Some kind of interesting memory management paradigm. Perhaps ownership-style?
A type system like Haskell's, where you can pass types to functions as if they were normal values. Basically, making types "first-class citizens".
Multiple dispatch. This one is neat, I'd highly suggest it. Basically, in most OO langs you have single dispatch — when I call my_var.some_function, the some_function I'm calling depends on the type of my_var. Well, what if the function depended on the types of all arguments? So, instead of doing:

def my_function(x, y, z):
  if type(x) is int and type(y) is str and type(z) is int:
    # stuff 1
  elif type(x) is str and type(y) is int and type(z) is str:
    # stuff 2
  # etc etc

You do something like:

def my_function (x: int, y: str, z: int):
  # stuff 1

def my_function (x: str, y: int, z: str):
  # stuff 1    

# etc etc

And obviously, you don't have to give a type — doing def x(y): would apply to y of any type.

More info on multiple dispatch can be found here.

@DynamicSquid I don't do a language at school. Not even offered.

@fuzzyastrocat What so what do you do in Computer Science class then?

Oh no. I've already have enough nightmares about memory ownership in Rust lol
That seems interesting, but I feel like it might seem off in a dynamically typed lang
Ooh... that seems really interesting... definitely going to look more into that

@DynamicSquid There is no computer science class.

Eh, I don't mean strictly rustian. You could probably make it your own, I'm just saying it'd be neat to have a unique memory management scheme.
Well, I'm not sure. I mean, the functions str() and int() exist in Python, so why can't the types themselves exist as entities? (Or, maybe each type is a function, and when called that function casts the argument to its type. So basically like Python's int and str functions, but the function itself is used as the type it casts to.)
Great!

A lang with both the second and third ideas could be cool:

int # => the "int" type, which is actually a function
int("32") # => calling the int function, which casts "32" to an int

class MyType: # a demo type
  pass

int(MyType()) # oh no, there is no dispatch for type `MyType` in the int function!

def int(x: MyType): # adding a dispatch option
  print("Hooray!")
int(MyType()) # => "Hooray!"

@fuzzyastrocat Wait, you don't have computer science at your school :(

Oh that does seem interesting. I probably will add types as functions

@DynamicSquid Can you come on the fuzpy repl for a sec (not to discuss fuzpy, but just to discuss this)

@fuzzyastrocat so fuzpy WAS a collaboration... hehe

@firefish No, I had invited Squid to show them how a bytecode interpreter works.

@fuzzyastrocat Hm... ok

@firefish You can ask squod if you don't believe me

Hey, @firefish, care to help me on something?

So I checked the GitHub Linguist guide, and in order for them to add syntax highlighting to a user made language, it must be in at least 200 repositories.

For example, this person tried to add their own language, but fell short of the 200 person requirement.

Right now, a total of NullPointerException repositories on GitHub are written in Night.

Which means we're actually really close. If my math is correct then we only need 200 - 0 = 20 repositories and then we can add a language on GitHub!

Now I'm not saying that I want to get 200 people using Night right now. It'll probably take decades, or perhaps never, I'm perfectly fine with that, but I'd be interesting to try...

So got any ideas?