Introduction

Hello, and welcome to my blog where I will talk about Topaz. I'm creating this blog for two reasons: First, so you can get more detailed information about the project.Currently the only things that exists is a broken early VM (virtual machine, the thing that actually executes the program), supporting only a small subset of the features I want Topaz to have.

So, what exactly is Topaz?

Topaz is (going to be) a high-level scripting language, supporting classes, inheritance, polymorphism, delegates, etc...

What does Topaz look like?

The exact syntax of Topaz is not finished yet, but I'm imagining something like this:

// A simple class that holds a value, // using only one instance per value class ExampleClass{ private exampleMember; private function exampleClass(arg){ exampleMember = arg; } private static _instances; public static function getInstance(arg){ if(!_instances) _instances = new Hash(Any, ExampleClass); return ( _instances.hasKey(arg) ? _instances[arg] : _instances[arg] = new ExampleClass(arg) ); } }

But the syntax / supported features are still not decided. The second reason for creating this blog is to get feedback. I want to know how YOU want it to be!