This is a dynamically typed, non-recursive language.
A descriptions of the relevant operators, their syntax, and restrictions.
Variables must begin with an alphabetic [a-z,A-Z] character and otherwise be alphanumeric.
var1 = Function(var2)
When used on its own the = is used for aliasing and performs a shallow-copy. You may not implicity release memory by creating an alias.
When the assignment operator is used in conjunction with any other operator or function a new object is implicitly instantiated. This also implicitly calls Release on the variable's old contents and invalidates any aliases. Likewise using implicit object instantiation on an alias invalidates the original object and and of its other aliases.
var1 = Store("123")
var2 = var1 # Object aliasing
var2 = Store(456) # Implicit Object Instantiation, var1 is released.
Print(var1) # Outputs `Syntax error: unknown variable var1`
This operator performs implicit object instantiation and as such must be used in conjunction with the assignment operator.
arg1 = 1 + 2
arg1 = Store(1 + 2) # invalid
Statements are completed with a newline or EOF.
The following is an enumeration of the standard library. Syntaxes are presented with type annotations to appease people familiar with types but everything is dynamically typed.
The standard library functions.
Syntax:
Store(input: String | Integer | Boolean | Object) -> Object
Used to create a new object. Performs a deepcopy.
Syntax:
Release(Object)
Used to release an object. Unsets all related aliases.
Syntax:
Print(String | Integer | Boolean | Object)
When called on a standard library object it prints the relevant object contents. When called on an opaque object it resolves the object to standard library objects and prints those.
The standard library objects
Strings are enclosed by the "
Syntax:
str = Store("Hello World")
Print("Hello World")
Integers are signed whole numbers consisting of the characters 0-9. Negative numbers are prefixed by -.
Booleans are either true or false. As a result both of those names are reserved.