Native Types

Currently our language only wraps the native C long and char* types. This is pretty limiting if you want to do any kind of useful computation. Our operations on these data types are also pretty limited. Ideally our language should wrap all of the native C types and allow for methods of manipulating them. One of the most important additions would be the ability to manipulate decimal numbers. For this you could wrap the double type and relevant operations. With more than one number type we need to make sure the arithmetic operators such as + and - work on them all, and them in combination.

Adding support for native types should be interesting for people wishing to do computation with decimal and floating-point numbers in their language.