- Individual bytes of a string (binary or text) can now be set using set-string by specifying the byte with a number expression within []. Since Gliimly is a memory-safe language, setting a byte this way is subject to a range check. For instance:
set-string str[10] = 'a' - An individual byte of a string (binary or text) can now be obtained (as a number) with set-number using a number expression within []. Since Gliimly is a memory-safe language, getting a byte this way is subject to a range check. For instance:
set-number byte = str[10]
Note that Gliimly is a very high level language, and it generally does not start with low-level constructs, such as setting and retrieving bytes from memory; rather its statements perform tasks that take typically many lines of code in other languages. So it makes sense an addition like this would be a "side-note" undertaken later in the language; it's not the focus of it. Still, Gliimly is also a high performance language and so the above two new capabilities are implemented with that in mind, with the minimum of overhead.