#sequette

[sequette-official]

i haven’t posted about it much but sequette is making massive progress, the parser is almost entirely done (the lexer has been done for a while) and then i can start evaluating actual expressions! i’m so excited to show y’all more of the language! (which will be easier once it actually works, haha)

[typecasto]

recently thought "man it’s been a while since i just read for fun, i should start reading again" and my first choice was an entire fucking textbook. this seems like a bad idea but honestly so far i’ve been enjoying it. but also holy shit my reading abilities have fallen off since grade school, it takes me like 3 tries to read a page and i don’t think it’s because of the material.

[trascapades]

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💔✊🏿🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #SayHisName #StephonClark #illustration by @vrye #NoJusticeNoPeace ____________________ Via AP: Two Sacramento, CA police officers will not face criminal charges in last year’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black man that brought nationwide protests. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced Saturday that officers Terrance Mercadal and Jared Robinet did not break any laws when they shot Stephon Clark after the 22-year-old ran from them into his grandparents’ backyard. The officers say they thought Clark, a vandalism suspect, had a gun but investigators found only a cellphone... ____________________ Stephon's mother Sequette Clark said she refuses to accept the prosecutors’ decision not to file criminal charges against the two Sacramento police, and that they should have been charged with homicide for killing her son on March 18, 2018. She says: “They executed my son. It’s not right.” ____________________ Reposted from @vrye - made this for #StephonClark, an unarmed Black man shot 20 times and killed by California police in his OWN BACKYARD on Sunday. They claim his cell phone looked like a gun. Not one more. This is gun violence — the police kill more people than all mass shootings combined. #BlackLivesMatter #EndWhiteSupremacy #RestInPower #AbolishPolice // for @equalityequation#TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/Buhtk6klMzg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fqatp76lmuw3

[mystlnewsonline]

SACRAMENTO, Calif | The Latest: Mayor seeks inquiry into police protest activity

SACRAMENTO, Calif | The Latest: Mayor seeks inquiry into police protest activity

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the California attorney general’s decision on whether to charge officers who killed an unarmed black man last year (all times local):

6:15 p.m.

Sacramento’s mayor and police chief are investigating the actions of police during a Monday night protest that resulted in 84 arrests.

Protesters were demonstrating in response to the Sacramento County district…

[chestnutpost]

California Attorney General: No Criminal Charges In Stephon Clark Case

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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Tuesday that there would not be any criminal charges against the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Stephon Clark last year.

At a press conference, Becerra announced the results of the state Justice Department’s investigation into the shooting. He said it took 11 months for his office to carry out the independent investigation. He met with Clark’s mother, Sequette, and other family earlier in the day before the announcement.

“Nothing can bring back Stephon Clark and nothing helps end the pain that his family carries,” Becerra said. “So I want to close by extending my hand to the Clark family … this report reflects the story my team and I wrote based on the facts and evidence before us, we did it by the book. But let’s start writing these chapters before shots are fired, before we’re writing a story from a place of grief anger and anticipation.”

“Our criminal investigation may be over, but our commitment to this community … goes on,” he added. “Accountability must be a cornerstone of all the work we do.”

In March 2018, police officers responding to a call about car windows being broken chased 22-year-old Clark, who was black and unarmed, into his grandparents’ yard and shot him multiple times. 

Sacramento District Attorney Anne-Marie Schubert said Saturday that the two cops who shot Clark would not face criminal charges. She said evidence supported the officers’ account that Clark was moving toward them and that they thought he was pointing a gun. In fact, he was holding a cell phone.

Protests have taken place in Sacramento since Schubert’s announcement. 

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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[typecasto]

any thoughts on the name "sequette" for a programming language? it's based around sequences (lazy iterators basically), i just took the word "sequence" and changed it, i just like how it sounds lol.

[sequette-official]

sequette can now parse sequence literals!

(the blue text after the > > is the input code, the white text is the resulting syntax tree)

So, I guess this means you get to hear a little bit about them.

Sequences in sequette are pretty non-standard. Sequences are made up of zero or more frames, acting a lot like Rust's Tuples. Frames can contain any number of elements, and the types of those variables may differ, but all frames in a sequence must have the same structure. From the Rust perspective, sequences are akin to vecs of tuples, if tuples could have named elements as well.

Elements of a sequence may be given names, or left unnamed. If specified, the name must be given in the first frame only. For instance here, alpha refers to the first element of both frames, 1 and 3.

To access the different frames of a sequence, use square brackets. sequence[2] is the third frame in the sequence, since indexing starts at zero. To access individual elements, use sequence[2].alpha for named elements, or sequence[2].0 for unnamed elements.

The dot operator always acts on the first frame of the sequence it’s applied to, and the square brackets return a sequence with a single frame. Thus, sequence[0].alpha is equivalent to just sequence.alpha

Sequences are the main primitive for building compound objects in sequette, they serve as iterators, lists, tuples, and structs, very similar to tables in lua.

[chestnutpost]

Activists Call On California AG To Charge Officers In Stephon Clark Shooting

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Activists are calling on California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to file charges against the officers who shot Stephon Clark last year after the Sacramento district attorney said her office would not.

On Saturday, Sacramento District Attorney Anne-Marie Schubert said at a press conference the two police officers who in March 2018 shot 22-year-old Clark, who was black and unarmed would not face criminal charges. She said the evidence supported the officers’ account that Clark was moving toward them when they fired, and they thought Clark was pointing a gun. 

Officers shot Clark multiple times after responding to a call about car window breakings and chasing him into his grandparents’ yard. When he was shot, Clark was holding a cell phone.

On Monday, civil rights activist Rev. Shane Harris, president of the People’s Alliance for Justice, delivered a letter to the California Justice Department office in Sacramento addressed to Becerra, urging the state attorney general to charge the officers involved in Clark’s shooting death.

Alongside other faith leaders, Harris is asking Becerra to prosecute officers before the one year anniversary of Clark’s death, on March 18.  

“This is Michael Brown. This is Trayvon Martin. This is Eric Garner all over again,” Rev. Harris told HuffPost by phone Monday, listing off other unarmed black men and boys killed by police. “This is why we’re outraged.”

Harris added that he and others are hoping Becerra will have the “courage” to prosecute the officers.

The attorney general’s office told HuffPost Monday that it could not comment on ongoing investigations. 

Mason Trinca via Getty Images Demonstrators gather outside of the Sacramento Police Department on March 2, 2019, after District Attorney Anne-Marie Schubert announced that officers did not break any laws when they shot Stephon Clark in 2018.

During Saturday’s press conference about the lack of charges, Schubert also talked about Clark’s cell phone records, saying these showed he had searched online for information about suicide and at one point texted the mother of his kids about killing himself.

Clark’s family and others criticized Schubert for bringing it up, saying any suicidal texts were irrelevant to officers shooting him dead that night.

“Whatever he was doing, or on, whatever his character is or his actions prior to those police gunning him down, is no one’s business,” Clark’s mother SeQuette said Saturday. “That’s not justification, that’s not a permit to kill him.”

“It was completely insulting and egregious,” Harris told HuffPost Monday of the DA’s remarks. “Not only did they not charge the officers, but then she rubbed it in and she criminalized a dead man. This is a moral issue.”

The Sacramento DA’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Black Lives Matter’s Sacramento chapter led protests after the DA’s announcement, including shutting down a local mall over the weekend. The group called Schubert’s comments “vile.”

“No justification for murder!” Black Lives Matter Sacramento tweeted. “No excuses!”

There were more protests planned for Monday night.

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[mystlnewsonline]

SACRAMENTO, Calif | The Latest: Stephon Clark's mom said decision 'is not right'

SACRAMENTO, Calif | The Latest: Stephon Clark’s mom said decision ‘is not right’

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the decision by a prosecutor not to charge the police officers who shot an unarmed black man last year (all times local):

2:10 p.m.

The mother of Stephon Clark said she refuses to accept prosecutors’ decision not to file criminal charges against the two Sacramento police officers who fatally shot an unarmed black man last year.

Sequette (suh-KWET) Clark…