aaronryank/forked

Two-dimensional esolang. WIP, please contribute

forked's Issues

Fork semantics could be more general

The semantics of the fork command are:

if entered from right, the fork will direct the IP up if truthy and down if falsy. if entered from left, the fork will direct the IP down if truthy and up if falsy. if entered from top, the fork will direct the IP right if truthy and left if falsy. if entered from bottom, the fork will direct the IP left if truthy and right if falsy.

This behaviour seems internally inconsistent to me: the IP turns right on truthy top of stack when entering the fork from the left or right, but the IP turns left on truthy top of stack when entering from the top or bottom.

Instead, what do you think about the following semantics:

The fork command may be entered from any direction, and changes the direction of the instruction pointer according to the value on top of the stack. If the value on top of the stack represents truth, then the instruction pointer turns right; else, it turns left.

This gives rise to the fun mnemonic: telling the truth is the right thing to do.

Functions?

Should Forked have functions? I think it would be cool because not many two-dimensional languages have them. However...

• It would be very hard to implement.
• Would it really add anything to the language, seeing as how the language is mainly going to be used for golfing?
• It's not normal for a two-dimensional nor esoteric language to have functions.

Here's the prototype for function syntax.

Forked is a great name

Given the whole point of the language, and its main unique feature compared with other 2 dimensional IP+stack based esoteric languages, Forked is an excellent name. IMNSHO.

Multiple IPs

I plan on making Forked have multiple IPs. Is this a good idea?