“A scripting language for programming the Ivory System.”
Designed to support both a dynamic style of programming and data persistence, IvoryScript has native features for efficient operation and interaction with multiple environments (data stores). Some of these are:
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First class names and types
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For efficient handling of dyanamically typed values and property names
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Lazy evaluation
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With separate data types for unevaluated data
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Data constructor definition and pattern matching
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Provides unrestricted data representation and deconstructor functions for advanced pattern matching
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Pragmatic impure update
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Although essentially a functional language, update is supported for reference values
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No implicit evaluation
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Permits full control over when evaluation is performed. In practice, coercion of expressions terms results in script transformation for reduction and evaluation to match the context
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