[tcaudilllg]

I updated Dyne's draft. The line dumper works (with a bug or two) and the object dumper is partially functional.

Now working on the standard library at http://unitedinfinity.atspace.com/Projects/Dyne/StandardLibrary.dyn

Dyne's draft is at http://unitedinfinity.atspace.com/Projects/JS/Languages/DyneJS.html . It does not work in Internet Explorer.

Help is wanted with the standard library. Contributions will be credited.


Supported commands:


Variables are declared by using them. They have no type. Assignment is by the "=" operator, as in C and BASIC.


create [source] : [object]
creates a new object after the architecture described in source. Object architecture is patterned after the Javascript form, as a string:
"[name] { [children] { [children of child] } }".


vio [name] [ ["="] [variable] ]
vio [name] [parameters]
Virtual input/output. Executes the string in "name" as Javascript source. Can also assign "variable" to a Javascript object.



while () { }
Standard ANSI C-form while loop.


if () { }
Standard ANSI C if loop


field ([alias] = [source], [...]) : [body]
aliases "alias" for "source" in body of the loop. "body" may be any statement or compound statement. Compound fields are possible.


: [name] [prototype]
Assigns the current line number to "name", creating a subcall procedure with "prototype".


call [name] [parameters]
invokes the subcall at "name" with provided parameters.


Whitespacing spacebreaks and newlines are ignored. Code style is freeform.

[LeoDraco]

[Rainer Deyke]

[LeoDraco]

[janus]

[PhyrFox]

Implicit typing is different than no typing. BASIC, for example, has implied typing... A$ is not A, and A has to have a number, A$ is a string. So you can not do A$ = 20 or A = "Hello". I remember seeing one language (I don't remember which) which let you assign any type to a variable, but you couldn't change it (the variable type) later.

Non-typed languages, like JavaScript, you can do a = 5 and immediately follow with a = "Hello", or even a = "Hello" + 5. (you can do this with overloaded operators, too, but that's beyond the scope of this discussion). With no typing at all, you can easily make coding mistakes, since there's nothing to stop you. The computer won't say "hey, this code might be wrong!" with non-typed languages, instead of typed or implicitly typed typed, which allow manual or automatic conversions (explictly or implicitly, depending).

So that's that. Non-typed provides easiest code writing, but allows the greatest about of logic errors, implicit typing is a middleground for the two extremes, and explicit typing is the most complex to make conversions, but has the least chance of failure.

~= phyrfox =~

[Rainer Deyke]

[LeoDraco]

[PhyrFox]

[tcaudilllg]

Fixed the line dumper and object dumper. (but have not updated the changes)

...Variables aren't being stored. :P Created, not stored. Must have something to do with the computation engine I wrote to deal with things like parentheses, and the order of operations.

EDIT: Variable storage is fixed, but the computation engine may not be performing the order of operations correctly, maybe....

[tsb]