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		sscarduzio on April 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Lobster Programming Language Why choosing 'value' as a keyword for types? Super odd

Aardappel on April 3, 2019 [–]

I've actually since changed that to be more conventional. Now the "inline" by-value objects are called "structs" and the regular by reference objects are called "classes" much like C#

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