Hello,
Just letting people know it might be useful for beginners to have some
information on characters. If you want to post something here or list a
reference, I’ll add it to a wiki page. This may not be ATS specific, but it
is at least relevant.
My understanding is that ‘\xyz’ where x,y, and z are octal digits is one
way to use characters in ATS. Another is of course just using the name of
the character ‘c’ ==’\143’, for instance? Escape characters may be
necessary in this form, for instance, ‘(’ to represent “(”.
Also, are there other ways to represent characters (e.g. dec hex) or other
random information that might be useful?
I’ve also begun putting up a page on stack versus heap allocationhttps://sourceforge.net/p/ats-lang/wiki/Stack%20and%20Heap%20Allocation/,
which may be useful as a quick reference for those wondering how dangerous
they are getting without using a GC 