csd129/mwnci

Yet another monkey-lang

mwnci

Monkey programming language interpreter designed in Writing An Interpreter In Go. A current guide is available, though still work in progress.

It's based on Steve Kemp's monkey with many additions

Monkey Scripting Language (MSL) is an interpreted language (I've not read the sequel to "Writing An Interpreter In Go") for writing applications. It's also a good language for writing arbitrary commands and tasks.

A MSL script consists of a sequence of commands. It is, for the most part, a free form language. That is, lines don't have to start or end at or before a particular column; they can just continue on the next line. White space is ignored except for the separation of tokens.

Mwnci is Welsh for Monkey, and pronounced moon-key, but with a shorter "oo" (as in look/book). It's fine to say monkey

The wiki can be found here.

Table of Contents

Quickstart

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/csd129/mwnci.git
edit config.conf
./configure
make install

mwnci's Issues

repl badness

The repl is kinda working, but after each command or a set of commands a colon (:) is needed at the end for the code to be interpreted.
E.g
include("foo"):
foreach n in 1..10 {
println(n)
}:

That's the badness. Also there's a looping issues with any erroneous entry that will continue to whinge after correction, thus not executing/interpreting any new commands.