let { alloc } in @'core/allocate';

let @len (String string) : u64 in {
    let ptr = cast(i8*,string);
    let length : u64 = 0;
    while(ptr[length] != 0)
    {
        length += 1;
    }
    return length;
}

let @concat (String a, String b) : String in {
    let len_a = len(a);
    let len_b = len(b);
    let final_size = len_a + len_b;
    let chars = cast(i8*,alloc.memalloc(final_size + 1));
    clone(a,chars,len_a);
    clone(b,chars + len_a,len_b);
    chars[final_size] = 0;
    return (String)chars;
}

let @clone (str string, i8* buffer, u64 max_copy_size) in {
    let chars_cloned : u64 = 0;
    let ptr = cast(i8*,string);
    while(chars_cloned <= max_copy_size and ptr[chars_cloned] != 0)
    {
        buffer[chars_cloned] = ptr[chars_cloned];
        chars_cloned += 1;
    }
}