nuttle.md

Nuttle

Nuttle is a spec for a language with no core library. The core lib is whatever the application wants it to be.

Features

Strongly, dynamically typed

Smalltalk/Objective-C like message passing

[myObject unpack: myState statefully: yes]

Formal stuff

Lexical grammar

$character \rightarrow \text{Valid ASCII printable characters}$ $digit \rightarrow [\texttt{0}\text{--}\texttt{9}]$ $digits \rightarrow digit+$ $bit \rightarrow \texttt{0}|\texttt{1}$ $bits \rightarrow bit+$ $hexdigit \rightarrow [\texttt{0}\text{--}\texttt{9}\texttt{a}\text{--}\texttt{f}\texttt{A}\text{--}\texttt{F}]$ $hexdigits \rightarrow hexdigit+$ $letter \rightarrow [\texttt{a}\text{--}\texttt{z}\texttt{A}\text{--}\texttt{Z}]$ $id \rightarrow (letter | \texttt{_})(letter | number | \texttt{_})$ $decnumber \rightarrow digits (\texttt{.} digits)?$ $binnumber \rightarrow \texttt{0}(\texttt{B}|\texttt{b})bindigits$ $hexnumber \rightarrow \texttt{0}(\texttt{X}|\texttt{x})hexdigits$ $dquotestring \rightarrow \texttt{"}((character \cap \texttt{\textbackslash}|\texttt{"}) | \texttt{\textbackslash} character)\texttt{"}$ $dquotestring \rightarrow \texttt{'}((character \cap \texttt{\textbackslash}|\texttt{'}) | \texttt{\textbackslash} character)*\texttt{'}$ $string \rightarrow dquotestring | squotestring$