Classes?

[FAReTek1]

As a user of goboscript I have found the struct system very convenient for handling objects with multiple values. However, these often go into functions which can get very messy - especially the struct that represents a complex number.

Since goboscript compiles to scratch code, an implementation of OOP would be quite inefficient in the scratch editor. This is why I suggest classes in goboscript that behave exactly like a struct with associated methods (procs/functions). This means that the classes will not be able to directly support attribute assignment unless held in a variable (just like structs).

But what about normal OOP..?

In the future, it could be possible to support a conventional (and slow) OOP system using JSON and a list which acts as memory, allowing for object creation/deletion.

theoretical code:

class Complex {
    real, imag;
    
    func add(self, Complex other) Complex { # self is implicitly complex
        return Complex{real: self.real + other.real, imag: self.imag + other.imag};
    }
}

[FAReTek1]

Another extremely useful feature that could build upon this is operator overloading. This would make the complex numbers issue extremely clean