Data structures coming soon
The next great feature in RimStone is coming soon, which is a conglomerate data type. RimStone already has simple data types (strings, numbers, doubles, boolean) and complex ones (arrays, trees, hashes, lists etc.).
The conglomerate data type will be similar to structures, but less formal. No definition of such a type will be necessary (though memory safety and static typing of items in such a type is enforced of course), and such data sets (or "bunches") can be created and used simpler than in most languages.
For instance, you could put together first name, last name and address as a "bunch" of data, and place that in the array. Since that's not a formal type, the same array can contain elements with just a first name. Flexibility, simplicity and power are the key. And of course performance as always, as this feature like all others will be implemented in C and high-performance C code will be generated and compiled for your applications.
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