Sawzall (programming language): Difference between revisions

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Sawzall's design favors efficiency and engine simplicity over power:

* Sawzall is statically typed, and the engine compiles the script to [[x86]] before running it.

* Sawzall supports the [[compound data typestype]]s lists, maps, and structs. However, there are no references or pointers. All assignments and function arguments create copies. This means that [[recursive data structuresstructure]]s and cycles are impossible.

* Like C, functions can modify [[global variablesvariable]]s and [[local variablesvariable]]s but are not closures.

==Sawzall code==