Cake

The C# based scripting language where you can have your cake and eat it too! (Dies)

This was made for fun (in C# .Net 7.0) but maybe I'll put it in a game one day!. Also yes i've been writing this without git for a good while! Time to put it on git for real and get this finished!

Click here to get a hopefully short and easy to understand overview of the syntax. Subject to modification, will likely break as Cake is fleshed out.

SUPPORTS

• strings
• math operations
• boolean operations
• variables
• if, elif, and else
• while Loops
• functions (not C# native, yet)
• arrays (regular, arrays in arrays, etc)
• 'structs'
• assert (debug keyword that ends program early if condition fails)

INSTRUCTIONS

First, clone the project somewhere.

Next, Install the .NET SDK. I'm currently using version `7.0.410`, but 7.0 and above should work fine. Anything lower is probably not going to work at the moment.

Then, if you want to use it as is:

1. create a file in the same directory as the cloned project. the filename should end in `.ck`.
2. write you first script in the above file (look in SYNTAX.MD for guidance).
3. open a terminal in this projects location, and use the command "dotnet run"
4. enjoy!

If you want to use this in your own projects, however, then you will be interested in this bit of C# code:

string input = "CODE";
Lexer lexer = new();
Parser parser = new(lexer.Tokenize(input).ToArray());
Main main = parser.Parse();
Evaluator evaluator = new();
evaluator.EvaluateMain(main);
int exitCode = evaluator.exitCode;

the important parts of the above block are the last two lines.

1. `evaluator.EvaluateMain(main);`:

This returns something called an "ITokenLiteral". This is just value of some kind, a number or a string. this is the final output of our script!

2. `int exitCode = evaluator.exitCode;`:

This is how we get the exit code. if this value is ever not 0, an `assert` statement failed and we exited the program early.

TODO

[ ] Global Vars in Cake functions (@var)

[ ] Functions (C#)

[ ] Loops (For i)

[ ] Escape Characters in strings

[ ] Refactor `Prpgram.cs`, it needs some work

[ ] Support C# objects?