Schizospeak

Schizospeak is an ongoing project

Installation

Go to this website and download manually or in the terminal execute the following command:

> npm i schizospeak

Schizospeak is an esoteric programming language such as LOLCODE and Shakespeare. Currently, all syntactical rules are due for changes. Lexical morphology is a low priorty as that only includes replacement of current words with the new semantics.

Components

Schizospeak incorporates the following:

1. Lexer : Tokenizes the input
2. Parser : Converts the Tokenized input into a valid AST
3. Interpreter : Uses the AST to return a Runtime value

Usage

The syntax of the language is mostly inspired by JavaScript with hints of Python and C.

Expressions

Expressions in Schizospeak incorporate Assignment, Binary, Call, and Member expressions. These expressions are a subset of statements and the hierarchy follows like so:

Expressions
|   Assignment Expressions
    |   Member Expressions
    |   Object Expressions
    | Call Expressions
        |   Binary Expressions

Assignment Expressions

Assignment expressions include all expressions. This means that an assignment expression can is recursive and only works if both lhs and rhs are of the same types, otherwise results in null. The following are valid assignment expressions:

x = (4 >= 2) && (3 % 1)
y = obj[23 / 4 % 6]
z = foo(obj.y - bar(foo(4 / y)))()
w = v = 4

The following is an invalid assignment expression:

x = (4 >= 2) && (3 % 1) + 6  # result: null
x = 3 &&                     # error

Binary Expressions

Binary expressions include both numeric operators and boolean operators. Here are a few valid binary expressions:

x != 1
x == 1
x && 1         # result: true if x == 1 else false
true == false  # result: false
true != false  # result: true

Call Expressions

Member Expressions

Declarations

Declarations encompass variable, function, if, and for declarations. All declarations are subtypes of statements and include a specific keyword. The heirarchy is constant across all types:

Declarations
    |   Variable Declaration
    |   Function Declaration
    |   If Declaration
    |   For Declaration

Variable Declaration

There are two variable declaration keywords: let and const, where let allows re-assignment of assigned identifier and const does not. Note that both keywords disallow re-assignments involving the same keywords.

The following are all valid declarations:

let x = (obj.x + foo(12)) % 4;
let y = (12 / 4) * 3 % 7;
const z = -foo(obj.x);

The following are invalid declarations:

let x = 3;
let x = 4;
const y = 4;
y = 7;

Function Declaration

fn keyword allows declaration of functions. The functions arguments support both args and kwargs. There is no return keyword-- typing out var at the end of the function works just the same as return "var".

Functions can also be returned by other functions:

fn makeAdder(offset) {
    fn add(x, y) {
        x + y + offset
    }

    add
}

If Declaration

The if keyword allows declaration of if-statements.

if (x > 4) {
    \\ do this if x > 4
} else if (x < 2) {
    \\ do this is x < 2
} else {
    \\ else do this
}

For Declaration

The for keyword allows for for-statement declarations. The statement requires the following:

• initialization: typically a variable instantiation using the let keyword. Note that the initialization supports any type of variable instantiation (int, bool, float, etc.).
• condition: typically a boolean expression
• step: a binary expression, including but not limited to all boolean and integer expressions.

Remark: The condition check is performed before the execution of the body.

The following declarations are valid:

for (let i = 0; i<10; i=i+1) {
    print(i)
}

for (let x = true; x != true; x = !x) {
    print("This doesn't run!")
}

Identifier

Identifiers are strings that have special use (variables, native functions). Identifiers starting with numbers or including special characters ($,%,*,(,),{,},[,]) are invalid.

Literals

Numeric Literal

Classic numerals.

String Literal

Classic strings.

Object Literal

An object literal can be created by using the {} parentheses and supports three types of input:

1. {key}
2. {key: value}
3. {key,}

Note that objects are self-recursive, therefore one can use objects in place of values as well.