DennisMitchell / Sad-Flak

For the Sad-Flak programming language, an unholy fusion of Woefully, and Brain-Flak.

Sad-Flak

For the Sad-Flak programming language, an unholy fusion of Woefully, and Brain-Flak.

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so, like brain-flak, you have some nilads and monads. However, control flow does not come from {...} loops, instead the control flow comes from woefully, which cannot be explained in one sentence

Nilads evaluate to a value, possibly doing a side effect. Monads evaluate all nilads and monads inside of them, and use the some of their values as the argument, then evaluate as a value

Nilads and monads:

• () = evaluates to 1
• <> = pop a, push to b (evaluates to popped value)
• [] = bool pop a. if the popped value was 0, return 0, otherwise 1.
• {} = pop a, evaluate to popped value
• ≤≥ = halt. immediately halts program execution
• (...) = push argument to stack a
• <...> = still evaluate all inside but evaluate to 0
• [...] = evaluates to its argument, multiplied by -1
• {...} = pop from b, evaluate to popped value multiplied by argument
• ≤...≥ = jump by argument

What is jump, you may ask?

well, here is where we get to control flow.

there is a command_pointer, or whatever you want to call it. it starts at the first line

-> ≤()≥(())
   2
   ≤()≥
   ≤≥
stack:

note the number 2. this evaluates to two blank lines, so this program is identical to

-> ≤()≥(())


   ≤()≥(()())
   ≤≥
stack:

We see the line the -> points at, so we execute that

so, the command ≤()≥ jumps the command_pointer forward by one.

   ≤()≥(())
->

   ≤()≥(()())
   ≤≥
stack: 1

note that the program execution does not immediately jump. so the push one ((())) command is still executed.

   ≤()≥(())
-> \
   v
   ≤()≥(()())
   ≤≥
stack: 1

when the -> is pointing at a blank line, it instead points to the next non-blank line. also note that the blank lines wrap around the entire program, for purposes of jumping, and when there are blank lines

so we execute the ≤()≥(()()) line

   ≤()≥(())

-> v
   ≤()≥(()())
   ≤≥
stack: 1 2

it exectutes the jump, and the (()()). the 2 is on the top of stack.

Again, it executes the same line

   ≤()≥(())


-> ≤()≥(()())
   ≤≥
stack: 1 2 2

it is still pointing at that line, so once more!

   ≤()≥(())


   ≤()≥(()())
-> ≤≥
stack: 1 2 2 2

now the pointer is pointing at the halt command. when we execute the line, the program halts. then, the stack gets outputted:

2
2
2
1

so, hopefully you can see how control flow works. Wait, what did you say? "Where are the conditionals". Well, my good friend, there are none.

...

unless you count [], the bool pop command. this command is at the heart of turing completeness, along with it's buddies:

• {...} multiplication, used with the bool pop command, you can multiply jump values by things depending on whether a TOS was 0 stack. it also transfers value from the off stack to the on stack

• <> this is the pop a to b command, which is needed to keep two stacks working, and also work with multiplication.

and of course

• ≤≥ halting

• ≤...≥ jumping

of course, other commands are needed for TC ness. but these are outstanding ones in control flow.