KiScript

ECMAScript, kept simple.

Thesis

• Simple: Less magic.
• Strict: Less error-prone.
• Sweet: Allow syntax sugar.
• Functional: Classes are derived.

Specification

Based on ECMAScript 5.0, with reference to ECMAScript 6.0, and some customization.

Grammar Variation

• Lexical
  • UTF-8 instead of UTF-16.
  • No /regex/ literal.
  • No Keyword as IdentifierName.
  • No .1 or 1..
  • Allow multiple leading 0s as decimal.
  • \0 is always NUL in StringLiteral.
• Syntactic
  • No automatic semicolon insertion, so no restriction on no line terminator.
  • No multiple or trailing , in ArrayLiteral.
  • No in or for in.
  • For each for iterable with for ( : ).
  • No EmptyStatement.
  • Block instead of Statement for if / for / while / do while body.
  • No trailing semicolon in do while.
• Language
  • No primitive. (Refer to Python)