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Or, at least, a built-in function (but it shouldn't be too complex to add it as an operator)

At the moment function match returns a boolean value: match/no match. It would be useful to be able to
get also substring matching, kind of $1 etc. in Ruby and other languages. I imagine an ambivalent interface

m := match("jim, foo and bar", "f(o+)");
m.matched? -- Returns true
m(0)             -- Returns "foo"
m(1)             -- Returns "oo"

or maybe m.matches(0) (this would make it a Record_Interface)

The following code gives an error

q3 := split("aldo giovanni e    giacomo", " ");
q3 := split("nome;cognome;;email;x", ";");

The problem is due to the fact that when evaluating the LHS of the second assignment, we get an Array_Handler and the interpret would like to write to the Array_Handler, but this is not possible. We should stop one level earlier and return the Reference_Handler associated with q3.

It is not critical, considering the fact that it is a language for templates, but it can be annoying and should be solved.

At the moment there is no case control structure, even if case is already a keyword. The utility of a case is not clear, though. We have no enumerative types, so the case would just be some syntactic sugar for if ... elsif ... elsif ... else ... end. Is it worth the effort?

Add varargin, a "magical" variable that absorb all the remaining parameters given to a function, like in matlab/octave