README.md

monkey-giggle

monkey-giggle is a toy based language with a similar syntax to Javascript, the language is both interpreted and compiled.

monkey-giggle compiles to bytecode that runs inside a stack based virtual machine.

Build

user@box:$ go build cmd/

Tour

Monkey is a functional language that support closures, conditionals and the usual package.

• Bindings and Functions :

let a = 5;
let b = 10;
let c = 120;

let add = fn(x,y,y){x + y + z};

• Conditionals

let a = 10;
let b = -10;

let c = if((a+b) == 0){
    5;
} else {
    10;
}

• Builin Functions

giggle>> len("Hello World")
11
giggle>> len([1,2,3,4,5])
5
giggle>> tail([1,2,3,4,5])
[2, 3, 4, 5]
giggle>> head([1,2,3,4,5])
1
giggle>> append([1,2,3,4,5],6)
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

• Types

giggle>> "Hello World"
Hello World
giggle>> 2555
2555
giggle>> true
true
giggle>> {"one":1,"two":2,"three":3}
{one: 1, two: 2, three: 3}
giggle>> [1,2,3,4,5]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
giggle>> let map = {"one":1,"two":2,"three":3}
giggle>> map["one"]


1

• Functions

giggle>> let map = fn(arr,f){
    let iter = fn(arr,acc){
         if (len(arr) == 0){
              acc
        } else {
            iter(tail(arr),append(acc,f(head(arr))));
        }
    };
    iter(arr,[]);
    };
giggle>> map([1,2,3],square)
[1, 4, 9]
giggle>> let cube = fn(x){ x*x*x}
giggle>> cube(3)
27
giggle>> map([1,2,3],cube)
[1, 8, 27]

giggle >> let toSort = [9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1];
    let insert = fn(arr,elem){
        if (len(arr) == 0){
            return [elem];
        } else {
            if (elem < head(arr)){
                return concat(concat([elem],[head(arr)]),tail(arr));
            } else {
                return concat([head(arr)],insert(tail(arr),elem));
            }
        }
    };
    let sortByInsert = fn(arr){
        if (len(arr) == 0){
            return [];
        } else {
            insert(sortByInsert(tail(arr)),head(arr));
        }
    };

giggle >> sortByInsert(toSort)
giggle >> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]

giggle >> let fib = fn(x){
     if (x == 0){
      return 0;
     } else {
      if (x == 1){
       return 1;
      } else {
       fib(x - 1) + fib(x - 2);
      }
     }
    };
giggle >> fib(15);
giggle >> 610

• REPL

Make me giggle !
giggle>> let add_mod = fn(x,y,z){ (x + y) % z};
giggle>> add_mod(15,16,3)
1
giggle>> add_mod(252,2343,13)
8
giggle>> exit
Ohhh you are leaving already !⏎

Return statements are not needed the language is expression oriented.

The tests contain further code examples you can run.