luxc 0.8.3

A small teaching language that runs anywhere and transpiles to Rust, Swift, and Go
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// Functions name a piece of work once, then reuse it. A function takes typed
// parameters and may return one value.

// A plain function with a return value.
func square(x: int) -> int {
    return x * x
}

// A function that returns nothing just leaves off the `-> type`.
func banner(title: string) {
    print("====", title, "====")
}

// Functions call other functions, and themselves (recursion).
func factorial(n: int) -> int {
    if n <= 1 {
        return 1
    }
    return n * factorial(n - 1)
}

// Functions take arrays too, and walk them with `for ... in`.
func sum(xs: [int]) -> int {
    var total = 0
    for x in xs {
        total += x
    }
    return total
}

// Search returns a position, or -1 when nothing matches. (Milestone 4 will
// replace the -1 sentinel with a real Option type.)
func indexOf(xs: [int], target: int) -> int {
    var i = 0
    for x in xs {
        if x == target {
            return i
        }
        i += 1
    }
    return -1
}

banner("functions")

print("square(9)     =", square(9))
print("factorial(6)  =", factorial(6))

let primes = [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13]
print("sum(primes)   =", sum(primes))
print("indexOf 7     =", indexOf(primes, 7))
print("indexOf 8     =", indexOf(primes, 8))