Language docs or specification

[Steve]

Hi

 

I recently came across SciTE which seems to be any easy editor to configure.

I would like to try to create the necessary properties and api files for the loop language.

 

I would need a list of keywords, built-in functions etc and something equivalent of a java-doc specifying functions and their parameters, or a language specification.

 

Is there any such documentation available, or would I have to extract that knowledge from the source files?

Maybe you could point me in the right direction?

 

Thanks.

Steve.

 

P.S. Loop seems a great language to teach programming. I have hardly seen a language less cluttered, yet with a logical, consistan,t well readable syntax.

One thing I stumbled across: I can print to the console with print - can I also input from the console?

 

[Dhanji R. Prasanna]

Hey, sounds great.

Right now, the best way to determine keywords and operators would be from Token.java:

https://github.com/dhanji/loop/blob/master/src/loop/Token.java#L94

That is a complete list of operators and keywords. We may add ones later but I don't foresee anything like that. The built-in functions library is very sparse right now, some people have volunteered to write file i/o and stuff like that but right now there are only the functions in prelude:

https://github.com/dhanji/loop/blob/master/resources/loop/lang/prelude.loop

(see looplang.org/doc for docs on each one).

Thanks! that's great praise, I would love if loop were used to teach kids (or adults) programming. I started learning on Logo (a cut-down lisp) so functional languages are a great intro!

Dhanji.