ConorOBrien-Foxx / Myby

A Tacit Esoteric Golfing Language

Myby

A language inspired by J and Nibbles.

The most up-to-date quick reference. May still be slightly out of date. See also some example programs.

Compiling and Running

Since this project is still in its early stages, right now, the only way to compile consistently (that is tested) is using the corresponding Batchfile. However, the following command should work and be equivalent for Bash:

dmd -g -w src/*.d -of=myby

To run a literate program from a file: myby -l file-name "arg1" "arg2". Arguments are interpreted as literate Myby code.

To compile a literate program from a file: myby -c file-name. To save the resulting code to a file, myby -c file-name -o out-file.

Language

Parse behavior

A program consists of a series of:

• Verbs (V), the actions of a program
• Nouns (N), the data of a program
• Adjectives (A), the unary modifiers of actions
• Conjunctions (C), the binary modifiers of actions
• Multi-Conjunction (M), the k-ary modifiers of actions (applied postfix)

Program sentences are then condensed according to these rules:

VA -> V, an Adjective modifying a Verb is a Verb
[NOT CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED/USED:] NA -> A, an Adjective modifying a Noun is an Adjective
VCV -> V, a Conjunction modifying two Verbs is a Verb
V*M -> V, a Multi-Conjunction modifying k Verbs is a Verb
V* -> V, a train of Verbs is a Verb

Example: VACVAA -> (VA)C((VA)A)

Trains

• 2-train is an Atop (as in APL)
• 3-train is a Fork (as in J/APL)
• A noun present in a Train is treated as a constant function returning itself, hence all nouns are really just niladic verbs