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Types and overloads are created in the language itself

The compiler only knows how to emit functions and how to link function names. I did that so I had fewer things hardcoded into the compiler and allows me to write the language in the language.

To do that, I had to add either a %wasm { ... } code block, and a %stack { ... } type.

/** We first define the type `int` */
type int = %stack { wasm="i32", size=4 }

/** Implement some operators for the type `int` */
impl int {
  fun +(lhs: int, rhs: int): int = %wasm {
    (i32.add (get_local $lhs) (get_local $rhs))
  }
  fun -(lhs: int, rhs: int): int = %wasm {
    (i32.sub (get_local $lhs) (get_local $rhs))
  }
  fun >(lhs: int, rhs: int): boolean = %wasm {
    (i32.gt_s (get_local $lhs) (get_local $rhs))
  }
}

fun fibo(n: int, x1: int, x2: int): int = {
  if (n > 0) {
    fibo(n - 1, x2, x1 + x2)
  } else {
    x1
  }
}

#[export "fibonacci"] // "fibonacci" is the name of the exported function
fun fib(n: int): int = fibo(n, 0, 1)


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Last modified 16 December 2024