Phantom Phantom is an interpreted language designed to address some of the problems presented by large-scale, interactive, distributed applications such as distributed conferencing systems, multi-player games, and collaborative work tools. Phantom combines the distributed lexical scoping semantics of Obliq with a substantial language core. The language core is based on a safe, extended subset of Modula-3, and supports a number of modern programming features, including: static structural-equivalence typing objects modules and interfaces lightweight threads exceptions garbage collection higher-order functions and lambda expressions a keyword binding mechanism dynamically sized lists and slice indexing notation type-safe implicit declarations The Phantom interpreter is implemented entirely in ANSI C, and provides a binding to the Tk GUI toolkit.

Current Version:   alpha License Type:   copyrighted

Home Site: http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/antony/phantom/phantom.html Source Code Availability: Yes, (follow links in Home Site) Available Binary Packages: Debian Package: No RedHat RPM Package: No Other Packages: No Targeted Platforms: Linux, SunOS Software/Hardware Requirements: None

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