!Language Concept 1.md

New Language Concept

Hoping to make it transpile to C code and self-compiling the compiler. The first version of the compiler might be written in Kotlin.

language-concept.new

# Bind symbols with values with the := operator
first person := "Immanuel Kant"

# Bindings can also use parameters
great ( name ) :=
    print line ( join ( "Hello, " name "!" ) )

# Spaces everywere!
great ( first person )

# Nested call
great ( join ( "aziis" 98 ) )

# An example of a class/struct/...
compound Person ( name, age, address )

# Creating the object
person 1 := Person ( "Antonio" 19 "Pisa" )

# Accessing properties
great ( person 1 > name )

great ( person ) with ( salute ) := 
    print line ( join ( 
        salute
        ", "
        person > name
        "!"
    ) ) 

great ( person 1 ) with ( "Ciao" )

compound Node ( value, next node )
compound LinkedList ( head )

# #define GET(type, value, prop_name) (((type*) value)->prop_name)

( list : LinkedList ) > push top ( value ) :=
    # Node* new_node = malloc(sizeof(Node));
    # new_node->value = value;
    # new_node->next_node = GET(LinkedList, list, head);
    new node := Node ( value, list > head )
    # GET(LinkedList, list, head) = new_node
    list > head := new node