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`uint` and distinct type aliases

In Rust today, we have distinct primitive types for all integers. u8, u16, i64, usize, etc.

This works fine, and serves well as a way of handling numbers. Every programming langauge under the sun does this, and it works.

But we could do better.

twiddle - a fantasty 16-bit microprocessor

8 bits in a byte, 2 bytes in a word.

Registers

All registers are 16-bit little-endian. There are 8 registers, being X, Y, Z, O, A, S, P, and C.

X, Y, and Z are general purpose, O is used as an offset in addressing, A is used for math, S is used as a hardware stack pointer (grows down),

Objection

Objection is a (currently unimplemented) interpreted programming language with one tenet: anything and everything is an object.

Objective C's syntax highlighting will be used for examples here, as it fits pretty well.

Types

Primitives

char, uchar, short, ushort, int, uint, long, ulong
Stores an integer with varying precision. \

	Twidl - A 6502-inspired 8-bit microprocessor

	Each instruction listed has an 8-bit value. A letter denotes a value used by the instruction.

	0000 CCCC - INT - Sends an interrupt of the given 4-bit code if bit 6 of S is set. In a compliant implementation, code 0 must be a noop, and code 15 must jump PROG to the address specified at FFFE and FFFF.
	0001 0RRR - TES - Sets bit 0 of S to whether the register is zero, sets bit 7 of S to bit 7 of the register.
	0001 1III - CHK - Sets bit 3 of S to the bit of A at the index specified by the 3-bit number in I.
	0010 0000 - NAN - Takes the NAND of the U register and the A register, and stores it in the A register.
	0010 0001 - IOR - ^ but IOR
	0010 0010 - AND - ^ but AND

	-- From https://gist.github.com/kedarmhaswade/ca46b689652b98e0bbdb995e1dd615ec

	local element_list = [[
	Muonium,Mu,0
	Hydrogen,H,1
	Helium,He,2
	Lithium,Li,3
	Beryllium,Be,4
	Boron,B,5
	Carbon,C,6

	import cv2
	import numpy as np
	import sys

	def eprint(args, *kwargs):
	print(args, file=sys.stderr, *kwargs)

	def main():
	# Get the file name
	args = sys.argv [1:]