Re: [Felix-language] non terminating procedures/functions

2012-04-18 Thread john skaller
On 19/04/2012, at 4:16 AM, Raoul Duke wrote: > any sounds weird to me. it sounds like "void*" in C or "Object" in > Java. i would expect more something like "bottom" :-) Actually it's "top", the type of which all values are members. It has the property any type unifies with it. Seems to work tho

Re: [Felix-language] non terminating procedures/functions

2012-04-18 Thread Raoul Duke
any sounds weird to me. it sounds like "void*" in C or "Object" in Java. i would expect more something like "bottom" :-) -- Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try

[Felix-language] non terminating procedures/functions

2012-04-17 Thread john skaller
Felix now has minimal support for non-terminating procedures: fun exit(x:int): any = { ... } The return type "any" tells Felix the procedure/function will not return. At present this only works for procedures, i.e. calls like: exit 1; although it's supposed to eventually work in