Stdlib

[flofriday]

This is the issue tracking missing functions for the standard library. We don't aim to have a battery-included standard library but it should be enough to write simple scripts.

• [ ] write function to create/update files
• [x] modulo operator for Int
• [x] split method for strings
• [x] reverse method for lists and strings
• [ ] sort function / method for lists (this one might be difficult since all languages do this with higher order functions so that users can select a key)
• [x] minand max functions
• [ ] ** or ^ power operator for int
• [x] abs method for int and float
• [x] print needs a possibility to not output a newline (maybe we should do it like kotlin with println and print)
• [x] args variable to access argv
• [x] lines method on strings to split them by newlines and return an array of strings
• [ ] remove and contains on dicts
• [ ] remove and appendAllon lists
• [ ] Native setItem for Strings, but where it panics if the string that should be set is not exactly one character long.
• [x] contains method for strings, lists and dicts.
• [x] strip method for strings.
• [x] joined method for lists.
• [x] default represent method for all classes

This issue is dynamic, and new features will be added in the future.

[flofriday]

@Jozott00 can you cross off the function you already completed?

[Jozott00]

Added min, max, abs:

min(-12,-2)
[1,-2,0].min()

max(0.023, 0.23)
[0.2, -0.003, 0.0].max()

(-0.023).abs()
abs(2)

[Jozott00]

@flofriday should list.reverse() return a new list, the same list object, or void (with internal list reversion)?

Right now it mutates it self and returns itself

[flofriday]

I think it should return a new list

[Jozott00]

I think is does more sense if it modifies itself... since reverse is a command. I think python and swift do this and have a extra function reversed that returns a new reversed list.

[flofriday]

I think reversed makes than more sense to implement.

[Jozott00]

Ok, i added both

[flofriday]

I also started adding a stdlib documentation.

[flofriday]

Update: The stdlib documentation is now complete and additions to the stdlib should now also be documented there.

I added a lot of string methods and the args global variable.