I like the idea, but I think this will become less useful over time. The most important thing the Prime needs is some way of passing around functions (either anonymously or by pointers) and values (pointers most likely)
without strings. I used
expr in a paint program I had and it dropped performance a bunch. Every time an
expr is hit, a bit of compilation has to be done. In a tight loop (like in a game), this gets bad fast. I like the constants, but it's more space in the editor on-calc. I wouldn't mind so much if it was just in the compiled file. These problems can only be fixed by changing PPL itself. I think adding pointers, even without pointer arithmetic, development would be a whole lot nicer. (I would also feel better about using large data structures.
) I'm using struct-esque lists in my in-progress Tetris clone, and all you really need are program-local vars that act like enums and a function to take key-value pairs and give a list with the proper indices. That function could even just be shared in a lib.
Anyhow, I'm looking forward to see how this goes.
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He does know a lot about it, as well as all the calc hardware.
