tschuy / cinch-lang

A stupid-simple language for demonstration purposes.

Cinch

A stupid-simple language. In this project I have attempted a coding style which is explicit, straightforward and easily understandable to any programmer at the expense of being properly idiomatic in python.

Hacking

Set up for the python implementation is simple. Optionally create and activate a virtualenv and then just run:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

When the python implementation is ready, just run:

$ ./cinch/cinch [interpret|dump|vm|compile] file.cinch

To run tests with coverage:

$ nosetests ./cinch/tests/ --with-coverage --cover-html-dir coverage --cover-html --cover-package=cinch

Features

All tokens are separated by whitespace to make tokenizing a breeze.

# comments !

# while loops
while ( expression ) {
	statement_list
}

# if statements
if ( expression ) {
	statement_list
}

# function definitions
function identifier ( identifier_list ) {

}

# function calls
identifier ( identifier_list )

# expressions
identifier operator expression