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Wee Collections

• Ordinal
• Array
• Slice
• Object
• String

Ordinal

Is an enumeration of symbols ordered by position.

** create ordinal type
def type_name : {symbol, ...};

** create a variable with initial value one identifier
new new_name  : type_name.symbol;

Note:

• Ordinal is a numeric type,
• Ordinal support numeric operators,
• Each symbol has a numeric value,
• First symbol has value = 0.

Array

Array has a capacity and a data type.

new array_name : [type](capacity)
let array_name : [1,2,3,4,5] ; array literal 

Slice

Slice is a section from an array.

new array_name :[0](100) ; array of 100 numbers
new slice_name :array_name[0..10] ; slice of first 10 

Object

• Objects are name:value pairs separated by comma.
• Each element can have a different data type.

def class_name  :{name:type, ...}
new object_name :{name:value, ...}

Note: Empty object is represented like this: {}

String

Strings are arrays of ASCII symbols:

syntax:

new string_name : [''](capacity)
A string literal is enclosed in double quotes: ""

example

** string with capacity of 20 symbols
new test : [''](20) 

** initialize the string with literals
let test : "this is a string"

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