LEXICAL.md

Source File

As of now, Luna only supports ASCII source files.

Character

A character is defined as any value ranged between \000 - \127 treated as a byte.

Whitespace

Whitespace in Luna is any character with the values of:

• \32
• \9
• \10

Comments

Comments in Luna are not unfamiliar to Lua's comments -- this is a line comment --[[ This is a multi-line comment ]]--

Tokens

Now to the actual lexical tokens of Luna:

Identifier - (a-z/A-Z)

StringLiteral - any ASCII character(s) enclosed between to parathesis (")

CharacterLiteral - any ASCII character enclosed in single quotation (')

IntegerLiteral - any numerical value not enclosed in quotation or pre/suffixed with characters

FloatLiteral - any decimal value (contains a . betweeen values to denote decimal) or suffixed with an 'f'

Keyword - any exact word from Luna's keyword pool (capitalization matters!)

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*

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-

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=

==

!=

[

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--

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Keywords

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