List of Design Decisions - Spicery/Nutmeg GitHub Wiki

In reverse chronological order:

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07 Nov 2021

• Adopting the term sealing in preference to 'permanent locking'.
• Removed reversible locking from the language. Reversible locking doesn't have any key use-cases, so I have dropped this complexity. (SL)

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02 Jan 2021

• Adopting the term const in preference to "fully immutable" or "recursively immutable".

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04 Oct 2020

• To reduce the overuse of the word 'function' the "kind":"function" is now "kind":"lambda"

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02 Sep 2020

• Modifier local replaces private as the latter is reserved for actor-like semantics.

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30 Aug 2020:

• Modifiers var, val and const adopted meaning re-assignable, single-assignment, single-assignment-to-immutable value.
  • var x means x can be reassigned after the initial binding
  • val y means y cannot be reassigned after the initial binding but may be bound to any kind of value
  • const z means z cannot be assigned after the initial binding and may only be bound to immutable* values
• The default is const in functions and val in procedures and finesses.

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24 Aug 2020:

• private modifier introduced along with block scope (renamed local 02 Sep 2020).
• class ... endclass is implicitly a block scope.