Lioness • Cub • SavannaKit
Cub is an interpreted, dynamically typed, scripting language inspired by Swift. This project includes a lexer, parser, compiler and interpreter, all written in Swift.
Cub is used for OpenTerm's scripting feature. A language guide is available in OpenTerm and online. Cub was derived from Lioness (my first programming language).
The standard library (abbreviated: stdlib) contains basic utility functions, for example to convert from/to dates.
The following Cub code calculates factorials recursively:
func factorial(x) returns {
if x > 1 {
return x * factorial(x - 1)
}
return 1
}
a = factorial(5) // a = 120
The following Cub code uses a do times
loop:
a = 1
n = 10
do n times {
a += a
}
// a = 1024
More examples can be found here.
An important feature Cub has is the ability to define external functions. These functions are implemented in native code (for example Swift) and thus allows Cub to call native code.
An external function pauses the interpreter, executes the native code, and resumes the interpreter when the native code is executed.
The following example implements a print function:
let runner = Runner(logDebug: true, logTime: true)
runner.registerExternalFunction(name: "print", argumentNames: ["input"], returns: true) { (arguments, callback) in
for (name, arg) in arguments {
print(arg)
}
callback(nil)
}
External functions are called like any other global functions in Cub, the print function from the example above could be called like this:
print("Hello world")
- Minimalistic, yet expressive, syntax
- No type system, language is dynamic
- 5 basic operators:
+
,-
,/
,*
and^
^
means "to the power of", e.g.2^10
equals 1024- all operators have a shorthand, e.g.
+=
for+
- Numbers
- All numbers are floating point
- Booleans
- Can be evaluated from comparison
- Can be defined by literal:
true
orfalse
- Strings
- Can be concatenated with the + operator
- Arrays
- Can contain any type, including other arrays
- Functions
- Supports parameters, returning and recursion
- Can be declared inside other functions
- Structs
- Can contain any type, including other structs
- Loops
for
while
do times
repeat while
break
continue
if
/else
/else if
statements
Since the project does not rely on any dependencies, running it requires no setup.
Open Cub.xcworkspace
(preferably in the latest non-beta version of Xcode) and run the macOS Example
target. The example will run the code in A.cub
. The output will be printed to the console.
Add to your Package.swift
file's dependencies
section:
.Package(url: "https://github.com/louisdh/cub.git",
majorVersion: 1, minor: 0)
Using CocoaPods
Add the following line to your Podfile
:
pod 'Cub', '~> 1.0'
Using Carthage
Add the following line to your Cartfile
:
github "louisdh/cub" ~> 1.0
Run carthage update
to build the framework and drag the built Cub.framework
into your Xcode project.
- Structs
- Completion suggestions (given an incomplete source string and insertion point)
- Breakpoint support in interpreter
- Stdlib documentation
- Compiler warnings
- Compiler optimizations
- Faster Lexer (without regex)
- Support emoticons for identifier names
-
guard
statement - A lot more unit tests
- Linux support
Cub source files can easily be created with Xcode, see XcodeTemplate.md for instructions.
A detailed explanation of the project's architecture can be found here.
This project is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.