Functions

Opa is a functional language. One of its features is that functions are regular values, which means a function may be passed as a parameter or returned as a result. As such, they follow the same naming rules as any other value.

function f(x,y){      // function f with the two parameters x and y
  x + y + 1
}
function int f(x,y){  // explicitly indicates the return type
  x + y + 1
}

Last expression return

You may notice that there is no return inside the body of a function. That's because Opa uses last expression return, which means the last expression of a function is the return value. For example:

function max(x,y){
  if(x >= y) x else y
}

If x is greater than or equal to y, then x is the last expression and x will be returned; if y is greater than x, then y is the last expression and y will be returned.

Modules

Functionalities are usually regrouped into modules; for example:

module  M {
  x = 1
  y = x
  function test(){ jlog("testing") }
}

We can access the content of a module by...