file IO in Lolcode

[Nick Heijmink]

Hi,
for a research project for semantics i chose to observe lolcode.
one of the subjects I wanted to work out in natural semantics was the file io system but i can´t get this functioning.
this is the basic code i have

HAI 1.2
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ TRY OPEN FILE "lolz.txt"?
     AWSUM THX
           VISIBLE FILE
     OHS NOES
           VISIBLE "OMG ERROR!"
     ANYWAYZ
           VISIBLE "LOL, filehandling over!"
KTHXBYE

[Justin J. Meza]

Hi Nick,

That is great that you are interested in taking a principled approach to
developing the file I/O semantics for LOLCODE! The current way of doing things
is quite hacked together.

I think the syntax you are using was from an old proposal. What is currently
implemented in the future branch on lci (at
https://github.com/justinmeza/lci/tree/future) uses some of the features of
BUKKITs in the 1.3 spec, and works like this (assuming the file is called
"libtest.lol", it opens itself, reads and prints its first 7 bytes, "HAI 1.3",
and closes itself):

HAI 1.3
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A file
file R I IZ STDIO'Z FOPENIN YR "libtest.lol" AN YR "r" MKAY
I HAS A str ITZ I IZ STDIO'Z FREADIN YR file AN YR 7 MKAY
VISIBLE str
I IZ STDIO'Z FCLOSIN YR file MKAY
KTHXBYE

If you want to play around with the grammar, you can change the tokenizer and
parser files. Most of the code that handles file I/O is in the binding source
code files.

- Justin

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