Fundamental differences with C

This is a short summary of differences between the C language and Ocean. Note that this is a wish list. All features here are currently percieved to be attainable, but that may change.

• Variables can have units

• Thread unique variables
• Simple mutex support on functions (making them ...) and variables
• Co-Routines, most of the power of threads with none of the overhad.
• Allows libraries to be written in thread-safe mode

Exception support

• Use try-catch-finally
• Exceptions are part of the 'contract', so you never get any unexpected ones
• All exceptions have to be caught, so if you do not use them, you do not get the overhead

Extended sequence control

• Use with-repeat-continue-else-finally with next-leave-bounce for total loop control
• Simple aliasses 'for', 'while' etc... for easy programming
• If-elsif-else with leave-bounce for condition control
• Assume, an if which assumes it will succeed
• Unless, an if not

No fixed literal meaning: types can extend the compiler

• Use: regexp engines, SQL and others

Validation

• Controlled boundary and wrapping checks
• Compile time ortogonal unit checks and conversions

Data conversion

• No Coercion

First class code object

• Closures and Delegates
• 'Default' parameters, usable for automatic iterator objects
• Variadic fn support for repeated identical types (eg. string concat on 2+ strings)

No preprocessor