The Neptune Programming Language Book

Prelude

All variables from this module are automatically in all modules

• print(value)

  Prints value

• eval(source)

  Evaluates expression source in the context of the current module and returns it. Throws TypeError if source is not a string and CompileError if there is a compile error.

  Example: eval('1+1') //2

• exec(source)

  Executes expression source in the context of the current module. Throws TypeError if source is not a string and CompileError if source could not be compiled

  Example: eval('1+1') //2

• spawn(fn)

  Spawns a new task with the function fn and returns the created task

• spawn_link(fn)

  Spawns a new task with the function fn which is linked with the current task and returns the created task.

• join(tasks)

  Waits for each task in tasks to complete. If any one task is killed, all tasks in tasks are killed and the error with which that task was killed is thrown.