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The Aardvark Programing Language

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Proposal: Rename to Kangaroo Project

gday mate

alec change to the kangaroo project

Swap bitwise with logical operators

Proposal

The shorter variants should be used for logical operators rather than bitwise operators as the former is used more often, so

• & | ~ are the logical AND, OR, and NOT operators, respectively.
• && || ! are the bitwise AND, OR, and NOT operators, respectively.

^ should also be reserved for exponentiation, so XOR can be something obscure like ^^.

Rationale

&, |, and ~ have roots that might be more recognizable. For example, & is used in English for "and," and ~ is used for negation in math. | is already used in some syntaxes for multiple options, like regex a|b. ^ is commonly used for exponentiation.

In addition, a single character is easier to type (though admittedly the impact of this is negligible), so it should be used for the operator that is used more often.

Duplicating the symbol for bitwise operators would be in line with the bitwise shift operators, >> and <<. Good thing existing languages don't do it the other way around!

proposal: delete

Epic syntax idea:

Epic syntax idea:
>> means return

Example (using kotlin syntax but with the return idea)

fun addThree(x: Int): Int {
    >> x + 3
}

Originally posted by @ky28059 in #2 (comment)

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