Nova

The Nova Programming Language.
Takes Nova code and either runs it using the compiler, or translates it into c code

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Variables

The Nova language has a variable memory system, that lets you create new variables and assign them a value. As you will see in Nova you don't assign the variable a type when creating a new variable,
as the Nova compiler deducts the type of variable from the value you have assigned to it.
In order to create a new variable in Nova we use the saved keyword let, as follows:

let x = 1; // x will hold the value 1
let y = 2; // y will hold the value 2

You can even assign new values to existing variables, as follows:

let x = 2.5; // x will hold the value 2.5
x = 15; // x will hold the value 15

Operations

Arithmetic

In Nova we have the various math operations in order to calculate different things.
The most basics one are + - * / ( add, subtract, multiply, divide ).
We also have the ! for factorial calculation. Because of those features we can do the following:

let x = 3;
let y = x * 5; // y will hold 15

Special

In Nova we can use the concat operator .. in order to connect two numbers together to a single one.
This lets us treat numbers as strings and join them together, as follows:

let x = 1;
let y = 2;
let z = x .. y; // z will hold 12

For the ones of you that are curious on how this affects floating point numbers, the answer may be a surprise for you.
As there isn't a clean solution for this that will make sense for all terms, we decided to cast the floating point number to int, and then concat the other number.
This will result with the floating point dissapearing, as follows:

let x = 3.5;
let y = 2;
let z = x .. y; // z will hold 32

IO

In order to print expression to the screen, i.e. user, we have another special operator.
Using the > we can print to screen various expression, as follows:

> 3; // will print 3 to screen
> 3 .. 3.7; // will print 33 to screen

Flags

• -cf --cformat compiles file to c
• -le --logerrors logs errors to file
• -r --run run code file inside a sandbox enviorment
• [WIP] -e --export exports functions for outer use

TODO/Milestones

Current

• Concat operator
• Runtime executing
• CLI flags support
• Dynamic functions

Future

• strings support
• Interpreter Version
• C lib for nova
• Link variables
• Functions

Finished

• Variable assignment
• Error log support
• Add Error Support
• Convert to C
• Type Deduction
• Math Support