MLang (v1.8.7): The Mathematics Language

What is M

M is an open-source language that is meant to help people learn about Tokenizers, Parsers, and interpreters. It supports variables, logging, and expressions.

Project Status

Version: v1.8.7

• If a { block } is expected but a { isn't seen, it will allow a single expression to pass (which also means there is support for else if)

Package manager

• There is a package manager under development by justamirror that you can see here.
• There isn't any official package manager as of now, if any others pop up they will be mentioned here.

Known Bugs

• PENDING: print with multiple arguments prints an array instead of formatting all args
• PENDING: Can't return a variable
• UPDATED: printf and format functions now also include the position of an error (in the case one occurs)
• FIXED: Error positioning was sometimes negative because of strings

To-Do (in order from Most Important to Least Important)

• Add 'import ... as ...'
• Objects [NOT EXPECTED]

Scrapped Ideas (maybe in the future?)

• Nothing scrapped...

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Done

• Add options to modify a value in an array [HIGH PRIORITY]
• Arrays
• Scopes [HIGH PRIORITY]
• Strings module
• HTTP Module (Possible, but unexpected)
• While loops
• Operations like varName += 5
• Better import/export
• Multiple arguments in functions (util.arg, util.arg1, util.arg2 || $pid, $pid1, $pid2)
• Javascript API (Priority: extremely low / not expected soon)
• Pseudo-pointers / Reference to $pid (passed in variable to a function) and $last (last variable set) (Priority: unexpected)
• Conditional statements (Priority: HIGH)
• Multi-line comments (Priority: extremely low)
• Export keyword (Priority: unknown)
• Import files (Priority: unknown)
• Minimal string support (Priority: unknown)
• Functions (Priority: Medium)
• Unit Conversion (Priority: unknown)
• Expressions (Priority: HIGH)
• Variables (Priority: Medium)
• Logging (Priority: Low)
• Built-in Functions (Priority: unknown)

Want a tutorial on how you can make your own language?

Well, are you in luck! I've recently created a tutorial for making a simple number interpreter from scratch.

Check it out!