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Knork-and-Fife
78 days ago
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I'm building a clarity-first language (compiles to...
If the only loop is `repeat i in range(start, end, step)` , how do you do a loop like "Keep reading from a buffer until it's empty"? I.e. any loop when you can't know the number of iterations needed when the loop starts?
hedayet
78 days ago
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yes, support for unbounded loop is definitely something on my roadmap towards v1.
derriz
78 days ago
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Should be a priority. Without it, your language relies on recursion for Turing completeness.
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