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This is not a Glint tutorial. This is documentation of how Glint, as a language, works (mainly for the purpose of LCC developers being able to understand what the Glint frontend is supposed to be doing).
For Glint learning resources, read the Glint book, or check Lens_r’s blog for tutorial posts (he is planning to release a ten-part series there). Of course, there is always YouTube videos, as well.
The Glint programming language is a high level programming language with low-level capabilities. Focused on the programmer, the Glint programming language spearheads ease of use while also letting people who know what they are doing, do it better.
If you are new to Glint, keep in mind that subscript doesn’t dereference. x[0] is of pointer type, to get the value at that pointer you need to use @x[0]. The only way to achieve pointer arithmetic in Glint is through the subscript operator.
The subscript operator is also the only way to get a pointer from an array type.
On grouping expressions: A group containing one expression should be represented in a parenthesized expression (using ( and )). A group containing multiple expressions should be represented in a block expression (using { and }). A block expression also opens a new scope, whereas a parenthesized expression does not. The idea is, you won’t need a new scope if you only have a single expression, and a parenthesized expression should only ever have a single expression within it. Do note, however, that multiple expressions are allowed within a parenthesized expression, it’s just an exception-proves-the-rule sort of deal where you have multiple expressions that you need to treat as a single expression.
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