Early Ideas

Ideas for Theme

• Pokémon script

  • examples:
    • (function), I choose you
    • (function) use (method)

• Sunior Script

  • Do a language how we wish to do it (implement the require feature and more)

Features for Language

For loop

while loop

• Instead of using "while use "as"
• e.g. as x < 4 do something

variable assignment

• x = 4

Function declaration

if-statement

Exceptions

Assertions

Built in types

• list/Array

Custom objects / Classes

Awesome features we want to include

null?

optional assignment operator

• list comprehensions
  • e.g. - [x*x for x in list when x%2 is 0]
• arrows for functions
  • e.g. - square = (x) -> x * x
• python-esque blocks with colon (Cameron)
• array slicing
  • list[0:2]
• "require" statement for argument checking.
  • require args.length = 1 (would throw illegal argument exception if false)

Things we want to avoid

• curly braces (Cameron)
• semicolons
• parentheses?