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More info on AL

Yentl Van Tendeloo 5 years ago
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 Next we describe the basic constructs of the language, as offered by our compiler.
 The language is inspired by Python syntax, and highly resembles it.
-Nonetheless, it is a lot simpler.
+Nonetheless, it is much more minimal.
 In the remainder of this subsection, we go over the different language constructs.
 
 If
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 ^^^^^^^^^
 
 While operators are seemingly supported by the compiler, these are actually expanded to function calls to relevant functions.
-For example, *1 + 2*, is expanded to *integer_addition(1, 2)*
+For example, *1 + 2*, is expanded to *integer_addition(1, 2)*.
+To do this conversion, it is mandatory that the type of both arguments can be determined statically.
 
 User I/O
 ^^^^^^^^
 
 User input and output is done through the keyworded operations *input()* and *output(msg)*.
-*input()* returns the first message in the input queue of the current user.
+*input()* returns the first message in the input queue of the current user, potentially blocking until there is input.
 *output(msg)* places the value of the expression in the output queue of the current user.
 
 All I/O is done using queues: the value is only read and written to a specific place in the Modelverse.