 even a small, minimal language. Let me walk you through a handful of them.</p><h4>Richer set of operators</h4><p>The most obvious kind of missing feature was operators. Oak has a richer set of operators than Ink, for things that I wanted to express in Ink programs but couldn't do so elegantly:</p><p>The <strong>nonlocal assignment operator</strong> <code>&lt;-</code> binds a value to a variable <em>without declaring the variable in the local scope</em>, meaning it can update values that are in a parent sco