The weaver syntax is just beginning to evolve, and has specific goals
- Be extremely readable. No programming experience should be required to understand what is happening
- Be simple, direct, and never require repetition. Repetition = bugs.
- Only handle 80% of the use cases. It's not possible to write a language that is good at everything. Complicated systems will require an understanding of coding regardless, so making those systems require raw JavaScript or CoffeeScript isn't a flaw.
title= 'unexpected visitor'
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> coins = random(2..30)
> randomly_run(1/10, <
You notice >coins< coins, dropped on the floor and pick them up.
>> character.gold += coins
> )
>gold += 1 <
Musings: An easily type-able character is important. = is easier than >, but already has another meaning. > signifies a prompt to many people.
Let's start with simple.
'>' starts a line of code, which can be ended by a line break, or '<'
Non-code is interpreted as text.
and < can be escaped as \> and \<
Each file becomes a class.
Code before "——" goes in the constructor,
Code afterwards goes in main()
Markup and expressons are implicitly surrounded in 'print()' if the context is empty.
I.e,
coins <
translates to
print (coins);
and
… not sure how to interpret
randomly(1/10,
text
value
text
)
… Directly it would be randomly(1/10, "text" value "text")
which would break unless concatenation is implicit.
