Questions about strings

[slonkazoid]

multiline strings

the current spec does not directly comment on multiline strings, but currently, strings can not be multiline due to AQMI:

const const str1 = "hello,
world"! // <-- syntax error, blah blah did not expect quote there

i think multiline strings should be possible with backslash just before the LF

const const str1 = "hello,\
world"! // <-- parsed as "hello,\nworld"

the above is how i currently implemented it, but it does not allow spaces after the backslash

// there is a space at the end of the first line, it's parsed as `"hello,  "`
const const str1 = "hello, \ 
world"! // <-- syntax error, blah blah did not expect quote there

quoting

my parser currently accepts the following as valid ways to quote a string:

"hello" // single double quote
'hello' // single single quote
''hello'' // double single quote
""hello"" // double double quote
"'''hello'''" // mirrored pattern, this is as far as the spec goes
"'''hello''''' // by number of quotes, this is only implied in the spec 

though, i am not sure if the last one should be possible. if you could clarify this, it'd be appreciated

interpolation

should interpolation only be allowed in single double quote contexts? i feel like this is a good idea

const const foo = "bar"!
const const baz = "{foo}₺"! // interpolates to "bar"
const const quux = '{foo}₺'! //  doesn't interpolate

backticks

no backticks?

[vivaansinghvi07]

How does your parser handle empty strings? I remember that was something I struggled with implementing my interpreter

[circle-gon]

👍, as someone who is trying to make a dreamberd transpiler, this is very unclear currently

[slonkazoid]

How does your parser handle empty strings? I remember that was something I struggled with implementing my interpreter

the lexer handles them just fine

it keeps the state of whether it is "in" quotes or not, and it's not "in" quotes until the first non-quote character is hit. and when it hits a terminator character (currently ' ' | '\t' | '[' | ']' | '=' | '!' | '?' | ':') "outside" quotes or a line feed, it terminates the string

[slonkazoid]

👍, as someone who is trying to make a dreamberd transpiler, this is very unclear currently

damn, same, into what language?

[vivaansinghvi07]

when it hits a terminator character (currently ' ' | '\t' | '[' | ']' | '=' | '!' | '?' | ':') "outside" quotes or a line feed, it terminates the string

what if the string itself contains one of these characters?

[TodePond]

const const str1 = "hello,
world"!

equivalent to

const const str1 = "hello,\nworld"!

---

"hello" // single double quote
'hello' // single single quote
''hello'' // double single quote
""hello"" // double double quote
"'''hello'''" // mirrored pattern, this is as far as the spec goes
"'''hello''''' // by number of quotes, this is only implied in the spec 

interpreted as:

"hello"!
'hello'!
''hello''!
""hello""!
"'''hello'''"!
"'''hello'''''"!

---

const const foo = "bar"!
const const baz = "{foo}₺"!
const const quux = '{foo}₺'!

all of these interpolate

---

backticks are allowed

[circle-gon]

👍, as someone who is trying to make a dreamberd transpiler, this is very unclear currently

damn, same, into what language?

js

[slonkazoid]

👍, as someone who is trying to make a dreamberd transpiler, this is very unclear currently

damn, same, into what language?

js

fuck same, what language are you writing the transpiler in? i'm doing it in rust

[slonkazoid]

const const str1 = "hello,
world"!

equivalent to

const const str1 = "hello,\nworld"!

"hello" // single double quote
'hello' // single single quote
''hello'' // double single quote
""hello"" // double double quote
"'''hello'''" // mirrored pattern, this is as far as the spec goes
"'''hello''''' // by number of quotes, this is only implied in the spec 

interpreted as:

"hello"!
'hello'!
''hello''!
""hello""!
"'''hello'''"!
"'''hello'''''"!

java const const foo = "bar"! const const baz = "{foo}₺"! const const quux = '{foo}₺'!

all of these interpolate

backticks are allowed

thank you for the clarification, this is going to be horrible to implement

[circle-gon]

👍, though I think this should be included in the README (maybe more explained)

[circle-gon]

👍, as someone who is trying to make a dreamberd transpiler, this is very unclear currently

damn, same, into what language?

js

fuck same, what language are you writing the transpiler in? i'm doing it in rust

typescript if you want to talk more I guess we can discuss in the discussion thread about dreamberd implementations

[slonkazoid]

👍, as someone who is trying to make a dreamberd transpiler, this is very unclear currently

damn, same, into what language?

js

fuck same, what language are you writing the transpiler in? i'm doing it in rust

typescript if you want to talk more I guess we can discuss in the discussion thread about dreamberd implementations

sure, @ me in there

[TodePond]

👍, though I think this should be included in the README (maybe more explained)

I think I'll add some official test suite or something