DRY
An experimental programming language.
Caveats
This is a semi-public, pre-alpha, work-in-progress project.
Here be dragons.
Caveat utilitor: assume nothing works, and you may be pleasantly surprised; and when it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
Prerequisites
Build Prerequisites
- OCaml 4.06+
- Dune (aka Jbuilder) 1.0+beta20
- GNU Make 3.81+
Runtime Prerequisites
The installed binaries have no runtime requirements or dependencies beyond
the system's standard library (libc).
Installation
Installation on Unix
$ make && sudo make install
Configuration
$ export DRY_ROOT=$HOME/.dry $ mkdir -p $DRY_ROOT $ cd $DRY_ROOT && git clone https://github.com/dryproject/drylib.git drylib
Usage
$ dry analyze --help # analyze code $ dry check --help # type-check code $ dry compile --help # compile program $ dry describe --help # describe a term $ dry evaluate --help # evaluate code $ dry execute --help # execute function $ dry export --help # export terms into a target language $ dry format --help # reformat code $ dry index --help # show the package index $ dry locate --help # locate the source file for a term $ dry optimize --help # optimize code $ dry parse --help # parse code $ dry shell --help # the interactive DRY shell $ dry translate --help # translate code
Syntax
Scalar Literals
| Literal | Type |
|---|---|
true, false |
base/bool |
'foobar |
base/symbol |
1.23 |
base/float |
123 |
base/integer |
1/3, -3/4 |
base/rational |
1+2i |
base/complex |
99% |
base/float |
0b01011101 |
base/word |
0o775 |
base/word |
0xDEADBEEF |
base/word |
\x41 |
base/char |
\u0041 |
base/char |
\U0001D306 |
base/char |
"hello" |
text/utf8/string |
@2020-12-31T23:59:59 |
time/instant |
<urn:ietf:rfc:2648> |
std/ietf/urn |
<http://example.org/> |
std/ietf/url |
123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000 |
std/ietf/uuid |
