The Powder Toy

oldmud0

Are you making a language for fun, or because you find the new language more convenient/natural for your needs?

FeynmanLogomaker

I started writing it in English class last year because I didn't feel like paying attention.
now that I think about it, I can see why mniip hates me, im exactly what a programmer shouldn't be

boxmein

@mniip (View Post)
He'll make an AST/lexed language later I assume - this is steps to it. Not everyone here became bachelors' level mathematicians at the age of 16... :D

Mrprocom

@mniip (View Post)
Hey, it's a start. I don't think the syntax is that terrible.

FeynmanLogomaker

Yeah right now it's not much more than a novelty but I'm building it up

MiningMarsh

Does this offer any flexibility on the level of homoiconic macros? It looks like it is just pattern matching based (which would mean no), but I don't know if a "frame" gets full access to the code body.

FeynmanLogomaker

I have no idea

FeynmanLogomaker

Okay I'm rewriting this so it doesn't rely on pattern matching for the engine while still offering decent customization; so far it just uses an alternate pattern matching thing I wrote but I've made it so that can be easily changed later.

EDIT: I'm rewriting and restructuring it so that it operates more similarly to a real language while retaining its customizability

Please note that, because its intended purpose is very different from a more traditional language, it will most likely never fully implement the traditional lexical analysis/AST formation/execution procedure, and instead have some overlap between lexing and parsing.

CHANGELOG 0.0.5 (ALPHA) - Full engine rewrite

mniip

{"for%s-(%b())%s-(%b{});", ""},

That's not a token.

Take a look at lua tokens:

# % ( ) * , - . / : ; < = > [ ] ^ { }

TK_AND, TK_BREAK, TK_DO, TK_ELSE, TK_ELSEIF, TK_END, TK_FALSE, TK_FOR, TK_FUNCTION, TK_GOTO, TK_IF, TK_IN, TK_LOCAL, TK_NIL, TK_NOT, TK_OR, TK_REPEAT, TK_RETURN, TK_THEN, TK_TRUE, TK_UNTIL, TK_WHILE, TK_CONCAT, TK_DOTS, TK_EQ, TK_GE, TK_LE, TK_NE, TK_DBCOLON, TK_EOS

TK_NUMBER(number), TK_NAME(identifier), TK_STRING(string)

The job of the tokenizer is to parse

..

into TK_CONCAT and

'else'

into a string and not a keyword. Only.

FeynmanLogomaker

I'm getting there
also, idk if you read my previous post but I literally just said that this will never function like a normal programming language, since it's not meant to be one. I appreciate your constructive criticism but I think you're missing the point of this.

NGN - Customizable Programming Language