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+# Amalgam design document
+Amalgam is a simple language with few keywords but at the same time is very powerful.
+All functions are closures. Assigning a closure to a variable is how you make regular functions.
+
+## Hello world
+```
+const main = () {
+    stderr.writeln("hello, world!");
+}
+```
+
+## Conditions
+```
+const main = () {
+    var value = 23 + 50;
+    if value < 23
+        stderr.writeln("less!");
+    else
+        stderr.writeln("more!");
+    
+    while value > 0 {
+        stderr.writeln("value: {}", value);
+        value -= 1;
+    }
+}
+```
+
+## Data types
+```
+const main = () !void {
+    var v1: i32 = 50;
+    var v2: u32 = 50;
+
+    v1 = v2; // error, v2 can't be implicitly cast to v1 because i32 can't represent the same values as u32
+    v1 = @cast(i32, v2); // ok, explicitly cast u32 to i32
+
+    var str1 = "hello";
+    var str2 = "world";
+    var str3 = try str1 + " " + str2;
+    var str4 = try str1 + 20; // error, can't add number to string. Preferable use str.fmt or explicitly cast to string
+    var str5 = try str1 + str(20); // ok, number explicitly cast to string
+
+    const str6 = "hello";
+    const str7 = "world";
+    const str8 = str6 + " " + str7; // ok, all variable involved are const. They can be combined at compile-time
+
+    stderr.writeln("{}, {} | {}", str1, str2, str3); // prints hello world | hello world
+}
+```
+
+## Dynamic allocation (array)
+```
+const ArrayList = @import("std.array.ArrayList");
+
+const main = () !void {
+    var list = ArrayList(i32);
+    try list.add(23);
+    try list.add(50);
+    var value = list.get(40);
+
+    for val in list {
+        stdout.writeln("value: {}", val);
+    }
+}
+```
+
+## Structures and instances
+```
+struct User {
+    name: str,
+    age: i32,
+    level = 1 // default value is 1 and type is i32
+}
+
+const levelUp = (self: &User) {
+    self.level += 1;
+}
+
+const main = () {
+    const user1 = User {
+        name: "John",
+        age: 24
+    }
+
+    var user2 = User {
+        name: "Titor",
+        age: 50,
+        level: 100
+    }
+
+    levelUp(user2);
+    // syntax sugar for calling a function with the first argument as
+    // the variable before the dot (same thing as levelUp(user2))
+    user2.levelUp();
+}
+```
+
+## Named parameters
+Functions call be called with arguments in position that matches the parameters or by using the names of the parameters.
+```
+struct User {
+    name: str,
+    age: i32,
+    level: i32
+}
+
+const createUser = (name: str, age: i32, level: i32 = 1) User {
+    return User {
+        name: name,
+        age: age,
+        level: level
+    }
+}
+
+const main = {
+    createUser(name: "John", level: 30, age: 30);
+    createUser(age: 40, name: "Titor");
+}
+```
+
+## Closure
+```
+const apply = (func: () bool) {
+    const result = func();
+}
+
+const main = () {
+    // Return type is automatically deduces. If function returns multiple different types at different points, then you get an error and are required to specify the return type
+    apply((){
+        return true;
+    });
+
+    apply(() bool {
+        return true;
+    });
+
+    // Or store in a variable and use it
+    const func = () {
+        return true;
+    }
+    apply(func);
+}
+```
+
+## Generic programming
+```
+const add = (comptime T: type, a: T, b: T) !T {
+    return try a + b;
+}
+
+const main = () {
+    var numberValue = add(20, 40);
+    var stringValue = add("hello", "world");
+}
+```
+
+## Ownership
+Like Rust, Amalgam has a concept of ownership but with less cumbersome syntax.
+There is one issue with ownership and that is references to data that gets reallocated.
+Rust doesn't handle this but Amalgam does it using #reallocatable(instance).
+Reallocatable should be ignored if the reference that taken from the reallocatable memory
+doesn't change location after realloc, which would be the case for pointers.
+```
+const ArrayList = @import("std.array.ArrayList");
+
+struct User {
+    name: str,
+    level: i32
+}
+
+const addUserToList = (list: &ArrayList(User), user: User) {
+    // this is not actually needed for ArrayList because ArrayList uses #reallocatable internally for list.add and list.remove
+    @reallocatable list.add(move user);
+}
+
+const main = () {
+    var users = ArrayList(User);
+    users.add(User {
+        name: "John",
+        level: 34
+    });
+
+    const user1 = User {
+        name: "David",
+        level: 55
+    }
+    // error, addUserToList expects user1 to be moved or copied
+    // addUserToList(users, user1);
+
+    // addUserToList(users, clone user1); // ok, user1 has been copied to function scope
+    addUserToList(users, move user1); // ok, user1 has been moved to function scope
+
+    next(move users);
+}
+
+const getUserAtIndex = (list: &ArrayList(User), index: usize) User {
+    return list.get(index);
+}
+
+const next = (users: ArrayList(User)) {
+    const user = getUserAtIndex(users, 0);
+
+    // Reallocatable example:
+    addUserToList(users, User {
+        name: "John",
+        level: 34
+    });
+
+    // error, "user" can't be safely used because addUserToList on line XXX can reallocate "users" which "user" belongs to
+    stdout.writeln("user name: {}", user.name);
+}
+```
+
+## Table (inspired by lua)
+```
+const main = () {
+    const values = {
+        "name": "John",
+        "age": 42,
+        "dogs": [
+            "spot",
+            "doggy"
+        ]
+    }
+
+    printMap(values); // stdout.writeln("{}", values) can also be used directly as it supports tables
+}
+
+const printTable = (value: TableValue) {
+    switch @type(value) {
+        array => {
+            // value type is automatically cast to array here, same with other cases in the switch
+            for index, val in value {
+                stdout.write("[{}] = ", index);
+                printTable(val);
+                stdout.writeln(",");
+            }
+        }
+        map => {
+            stdout.writeln("{");
+            for key, val in value {
+                stdout.write("'{}': ", key);
+                printTable(val);
+                stdout.writeln(",");
+            }
+            stdout.writeln("}");
+        }
+        else => stdout.write(value);
+    }
+}
+```
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+const main = () {
+}
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