[READY] NTSL refactor

[monster860]

DOCUMENTATION: https://wiki.yogstation.net/wiki/NT_Script

Don't tell me there's no documentation.

This will break your scripts, here's how you make a script now:

// you can initialize associative lists
replacements = list(
  "A" = "fuck",
  "B" = "shit"
);
// signal processing occurs in a function now, and the global scope is only executed once, immediately after compilation
def process_signal(sig) {
  sig.source += " OwO"; // you can modify the signal like before
  // you can use []
  if(replacements.Find(sig.content)) {
    sig.content = replacements[sig.content];
  }
  sleep(2); // sleeping will no longer confuse the absolute shit out of the interpreter.
  return sig; // you have to return the signal object, you can even create a new one!
}
// broadcast a message
broadcast_sig = signal("Compilation successful!", channels.common, "NTSL script");
broadcast_sig.say = "states";
channels_to_broadcast = list(channels.common, channels.command, channels.security);
for(i = 1; i <= channels_to_broadcast.len; i++) {
  broadcast_sig.freq = channels_to_broadcast;
  broadcast(broadcast_sig); // broadcasts the signal
}

// I can't be bothered to make an example for this, but there's also closures, like in JS.

• Refactor assignments to be operators
• Refactor the scope to be passed around as paremeters so sleep() doesn't fuck shit up horribly
• Add for loops
• Add the "." operator, and the related interactions
• Add the "[]" operator
• Add support for creating assoc lists easily
• Refactor functions
• Move signal processing from the global scope into a function

🆑 monster860
tweak: Assignemts in NTSL are now operators
fix: sleep() in NTSL no longer breaks things horribly
add: Adds for loops to NTSL
add: Adds the "." and "[]" operator to NTSL. You can do "sig.content" or "some_list[3]" now.
add: You can now create associative lists in NTSL using list()
tweak: Signal processing is done in a function called "process_signal" that must be defined by the user - one argument is passed, the signal argument, change properties on it to change the signal.
fix: The stack traces in the runtime errors for NTSL actually contain line numbers now.
tweak: Broadcasting in NTSL is now done by calling broadcast() with an argument of a signal object, which can be created with a signal() function. Remote signalling is done with remote_signal().
fix: You can do mem() in NTSL with the second argument null and it will remove the property
tweak: several global vars in NTSL have been moved to objects. Languages are in the "languages" object, filters are in the "filter_types" object, and channels are in the "channels" object.
/:cl:

[Altoids1]

[Altoids1]

So are you going to write up any documentation that actually lists off all the changes you've made to my baby, or are we all just kinda supposed to figure that one out ourselves more or less?

[Jc1469]

disgusting

[snowsignal]

We should really add docs for this, I spent a while trying to find how the new NTSL worked.