Getting oriented
Reading Ascent
We’ll cover every concept in detail later. For now, a quick guide to what might have tripped you up:
typeis plain data; behaviour lives in free functions andmatch, no OOP anywhere on the horizon.fix= constant,mut= variable; only a slot can change, values never mutate.- A program’s value is its last expression, and that is the output
program (params)declares typed inputs; the runtime validates them at the boundary, sonameandagealready hold good values inside the body.#starts a comment.