y_tho

Introduction

Have you ever wished pawn wasn't so C-like? Would you much prefer to script in the superior language of unix shell scripting? Well now you can! y_tho brings pawn syntax in to the 22nd century, with new keywords such as esac, fi, and many many more; just take a look:

Examples

Before:

for (new i = 0; i != 10; ++i)
{
	printf("i is %d", i);
}

Now:

for i in {0 .. 10}
do
	echo i is %d, i
done

Before:

if (playerid < 7)
{
	SetPlayerPos(playerid, 0.0, 0.0, 4.0);
}

Now:

if [ playerid -lt 7 ]
then
	SetPlayerPos playerid, 0.0, 0.0, 4.0
fi

Before:

switch (boss)
{
	case 5:
	{
		printf("boss is 5");
	}
	case 10:
	{
		printf("boss is 10");
	}
}

Now:

switch boss of
case 5)
	printf("boss is 5");
case 10)
	printf("boss is 10");
esac

All syntax

if/elif/else

if [ i -gt 5 ]
then
	echo "i is %d", i
elif [ i -eq 5 ]
then
	echo i is 5
else
	echo "i is something else"
fi

for (range)

for j in {7 .. 11}
do
	echo j is %d, j
done

Note that this syntax will declare j as new.

for (arithmetic)

for ((k = 10; k != 100; ++k))
do
	echo k is %d, k
done

while

while [ i -lt 10 ]
do
	echo "i is %d", i
	++i
done

until (!while)

until [ i -eq 15 ]
do
	echo "i is %d", i
	SetPlayerPos i, 0.0, 0.0, 4.0
	++i
done

switch

switch i of
case 5)
	echo i is 5
case 10)
	echo i is 5
default)
	echo i is %d, i
esac

Note that this doesn't QUITE match the bash case syntax for technical reasons :(.

echo

echo Hello world
echo "How are you?"
echo "The answer is %d", 42

comparisons

• -lt - Less than.
• -le - Less than or equal to.
• -eq - Equal.
• -ne - Not equal.
• -ge - Greater than or equal to.
• -gt - Greater than.

Semi-colons

These are now optional:

SetPlayerPos(playerid, 0.0, 0.0, 4.0)

Bonus

If you are using the new (community) compiler (which you really should be - it is available here: https://github.com/pawn-lang/compiler/releases), brackets are also optional:

SetPlayerPos playerid, 0.0, 0.0, 4.0

Note that they're never required on echo regardless of your compiler.

y_tho?

y_not?

Seriously, why though?

Because people kept joking about me writing a library called "y_tho", so I did.

Installation

I'm slightly apprehensive about even giving you the link to this, but here:

https://github.com/Y-Less/y_tho

It is also available through sampctl (another tool you should get from here: http://sampctl.com/) here:

sampctl package install Y-Less/y_tho

Include in your code and begin using the library:

#include <y_tho>