floats for numeric literals in generic code when possible . . . . . . . . . 456 37 Frequently Asked Questions 457 37.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . parallelism and distributed computation • Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines) • Unobtrusive yet powerful type system • Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types • including but not limited to UTF-8 • Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed) • Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes • Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming

floats for numeric literals in generic code when possible . . . . . . . . . 456 37 Frequently Asked Questions 457 37.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . parallelism and distributed computation • Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines) • Unobtrusive yet powerful type system • Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types • including but not limited to UTF-8 • Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed) • Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes • Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming

floats for numeric literals in generic code when possible . . . . . . . . . 489 38 Frequently Asked Questions 491 38.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . parallelism and distributed computation • Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines) • Unobtrusive yet powerful type system • Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types • including but not limited to UTF-8 • Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed) • Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes • Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming

floats for numeric literals in generic code when possible . . . . . . . . . 489 38 Frequently Asked Questions 491 38.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . parallelism and distributed computation • Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines) • Unobtrusive yet powerful type system • Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types • including but not limited to UTF-8 • Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed) • Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes • Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming

floats for numeric literals in generic code when possible . . . . . . . . . 489 38 Frequently Asked Questions 491 38.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . parallelism and distributed computation • Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines) • Unobtrusive yet powerful type system • Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types • including but not limited to UTF-8 • Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed) • Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes • Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming

floats for numeric literals in generic code when possible . . . . . . . . . 500 38 Frequently Asked Questions 502 38.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . parallelism and distributed computation • Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines) • Unobtrusive yet powerful type system • Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types • including but not limited to UTF-8 • Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed) • Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes • Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming

floats for numeric literals in generic code when possible . . . . . . . . . 501 38 Frequently Asked Questions 503 38.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . parallelism and distributed computation • Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines) • Unobtrusive yet powerful type system • Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types • including but not limited to UTF-8 • Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed) • Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes • Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming

floats for numeric literals in generic code when possible . . . . . . . . . 500 38 Frequently Asked Questions 502 38.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . parallelism and distributed computation • Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines) • Unobtrusive yet powerful type system • Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types • including but not limited to UTF-8 • Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed) • Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes • Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming

floats for numeric literals in generic code when possible . . . . . . . . . 500 38 Frequently Asked Questions 502 38.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . parallelism and distributed computation • Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines) • Unobtrusive yet powerful type system • Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types • including but not limited to UTF-8 • Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed) • Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes • Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming

floats for numeric literals in generic code when possible . . . . . . . . . 500 38 Frequently Asked Questions 502 38.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . parallelism and distributed computation • Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines) • Unobtrusive yet powerful type system • Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types • including but not limited to UTF-8 • Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed) • Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes • Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming