Optional Features

Two major design decisions are still up in the air, and both of the reasonable alternatives have been implemented in both cases, selectable by a user-specifiable option:

• unicode selects between Java-style 16-bit characters, and full 21-bit Unicode characters.

• box selects between using machine primative types for numbers and characters, and ‶boxing″ all values as objects.

The defaults are:

program : +unicode, -box;