Aparajita’s World

One advantage of writing my own interpreter is the ability to add new features to the language. I have taken quite a bit of inspiration from other languages I have used, such as C++ and python.

If you have used collections in Active4D, you may have used for each to iterate through a collection. Starting with v4.0, for each can be used to iterate through much more than collections. Continue reading →

I was coding the other day and wrote these kinds of tests for the millionth time:

if (position("foo"; $bar) > 0)
if (find in array($bar; "foo") > 0)
if (collection has($bar; "foo"))
if ($bar{"foo"} # "")

So I said to myself, “Self, there has got to be a better and faster way to do these tests.” Continue reading →