Lape
Lape is a scripting engine with a Pascal derived syntax for Free Pascal and Delphi. It's written with speed and a broad platform compatibility in mind. The syntax is backwards compatible with Pascal Script (to a certain degree).
Lape is:
- A scripting engine
- A Pascal derived language
- Basetypes:
Integer
,Float
,Char
,String
,Boolean
,Variant
,Array
,Record
,Union
,Enum
,Set
,Pointer
,Function pointer
- Operations:
:=
=
<>
>
>=
<
<=
@
^
+
-
*
/
**
AND
OR
DIV
XOR
NOT
IN
SHL
SHR
- Constructs:
If
,For
,Case
,Repeat
,While
,Try
,Label
- Internal and external (overloaded) functions (with support for default params)
- Internal/external variables and constants (every variable is represented exactly as how it would be by FPC/Delphi)
- Support for local (nested) declarations. So function can have their own constants/types/variables/functions.
- Operator overloading.
- Basetypes:
- Portable
- Fully written in FPC/Delphi. No need for external libraries.
- Tested with Linux(x86/x64), Windows(x86/x64) and Mac OS, but supports virtually every platform FPC supports.
- Extensible
- New types can easily be added with specified behaviour for operations.
- Optional foreign function interface which allows native calling of Lape functions and importing of functions without creating wrappers.
- Fast