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by lnjng 1154 days ago
Yes, that is Fibonacci. The program finds the sum of all the even Fibonacci numbers less than 4 million. As for more examples, I will certainly add in the future.

The 「」was a design choice that I made so that I can more easily code the translator to differentiate between variables and other names (e.g. functions), with the side benefit of making the code slightly more readable. Spaces I bet can certainly achieve the same level of readability, but would require more complex code. I'll think about implementing that, however.

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It's strange that you need to separate functions and other variables. I mostly use Racket, but I'm using Python from time to time. I'm using some code like

  def something(N, x):
    f, g, h = method_1(N)
    #f, g, h = method_2(N)
    #f, g, h = method_3(N)
    return f(x) + g(x) + h(x)
that use variables as functions.
What I mean by "functions" are the ones that need to be translated into English. For example:

  印(“你好”)
This would be translated to:

  print("你好")
However, variables are not translated. If I denote 印 as a variable:

  「印」(“你好”)
This would get translated to:

  印("你好")