First steps…

So today we took the first steps, and tried to define some control structures and operators for our language. In the following documentation the symbol # will be used as a magic placeholder. This is what we came up with.

• To give us a greater freedom in the number department of our language, and because we like while-loops, we have decided NOT to include for-loops.
• We will implement a for all-loop in the language with the following syntax:
  for all # in #

  Note that this loop does not iterate through the datastructure in any specific order, and that it will want to have a lot of processes running at the same time, given that they are safe.

• A standard if sentence will be implemented:
  if # then # else #
• As mentioned before, we like while-loops:
  while #
• The following choices concerning operators were made:
  # + # (add # to #, if # are scalars; concatenate # and #, if # are strings)
  # – # (subtract # from #)
  # * # (multiply # with #)
  # / # (divide # with #)
  # := # (# becomes #)
  # mod # or # % # (# modulo #, which notation has not yet been chosen)
  #^# (empower # by #)
  # and # (and operator, for logical expressions)
  # or # (or operator, for logical expresseions)
  # = # (compare # to #)
  # <> # (# is different from #)
  |#| (the absolute value of #, if # is a scalar; the lenght of #, if # has one)

That is all for today. I hope I didn’t make too many typos.

~Kim

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