I like the idea of being able to express emotions, e.g
print("Sure")!
vs
print("Sure")?
However, I feel like we might hurt the compiler's feelings, so adding support for please and would you be kind enough to seems like a minimum. For example:
please print("Sure")!
or
would you be kind enough to print ("Sure")?
Now, the simplest way to do that is probably to add full-fledged support for INTERCAL in DreamBerd. Obviously, we need to have come from (since goto is evil), and the unary OR operator in INTERCAL with its bit interleave is a bit hard to emulate, so we need to have it baked in.
I also feel like DreamBerd's syntax for assigning values to numbers, e.g. 5 = 2+2 blends quite well with the notation for variables in INTERCAL, e.g. .5 for variable number 5. You could interpret .5 as a "floating point variable", which would be both interesting and totally wrong.
I like the idea of being able to express emotions, e.g
vs
However, I feel like we might hurt the compiler's feelings, so adding support for
pleaseandwould you be kind enough toseems like a minimum. For example:or
Now, the simplest way to do that is probably to add full-fledged support for INTERCAL in DreamBerd. Obviously, we need to have
come from(sincegotois evil), and the unary OR operator in INTERCAL with its bit interleave is a bit hard to emulate, so we need to have it baked in.I also feel like DreamBerd's syntax for assigning values to numbers, e.g.
5 = 2+2blends quite well with the notation for variables in INTERCAL, e.g..5for variable number 5. You could interpret.5as a "floating point variable", which would be both interesting and totally wrong.