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				| @ -7,7 +7,12 @@ motivation to write. | |||||||
| Documentation is presented in a formal grammar and an example, | Documentation is presented in a formal grammar and an example, | ||||||
| syntax-highlighted with Rust, because it's close enough. | syntax-highlighted with Rust, because it's close enough. | ||||||
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| ## Syntax | ## Standard Library | ||||||
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 | ||||||
|  | Reid has a standard library that is referred to as `std` in code. Documentation | ||||||
|  | about importable types and functions can be found [here](./standard_library.md). | ||||||
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 | ||||||
|  | ## Syntax and general information | ||||||
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| Syntax for Reid is very much inspired by rust, and examples of the language can | Syntax for Reid is very much inspired by rust, and examples of the language can | ||||||
| be found in the [examples](../examples/)-folder. | be found in the [examples](../examples/)-folder. | ||||||
| @ -76,7 +81,7 @@ grammar the syntax for imports is | |||||||
| <import> :: "import" <ident> "::" <ident> ";" | <import> :: "import" <ident> "::" <ident> ";" | ||||||
| ``` | ``` | ||||||
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 | ||||||
| An example importing the `print`-function from `std` would be | An example importing the `print`-function from [`std`](./standard_library.md) would be | ||||||
| ``` rust | ``` rust | ||||||
| import std::print; | import std::print; | ||||||
| ``` | ``` | ||||||
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| @ -1,6 +1,8 @@ | |||||||
| # Standard Library | # Standard Library | ||||||
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 | ||||||
| ### `pub struct String` | ## Strings | ||||||
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|  | #### `pub struct String` | ||||||
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| Editable string value that can be printed and extended | Editable string value that can be printed and extended | ||||||
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| @ -8,38 +10,42 @@ Has the following binops defined: | |||||||
| - `String` + `*char` = `String` | - `String` + `*char` = `String` | ||||||
| - `String` + `u64` = `String` | - `String` + `u64` = `String` | ||||||
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 | ||||||
| ### `pub fn print(message: String)` | #### `pub fn print(message: String)` | ||||||
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| Prints given `message` to the standard output | Prints given `message` to the standard output | ||||||
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 | ||||||
| ### `pub fn allocate(size: u64) -> *u8` | #### `pub fn new_string() -> String` | ||||||
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| Unsafely allocates `size` bytes of memory from the stack, and returns a pointer to it, which must be manually freed. |  | ||||||
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 |  | ||||||
| ### `pub fn new_string() -> String` |  | ||||||
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| Returns a new empty `String`-object, which must later be manually freed. | Returns a new empty `String`-object, which must later be manually freed. | ||||||
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 | ||||||
| ### `pub fn from_str(string: *char) -> String` | #### `pub fn from_str(string: *char) -> String` | ||||||
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| Creates a new `String`-object containing initially data from the given string-literal which must be later freed. | Creates a new `String`-object containing initially data from the given string-literal which must be later freed. | ||||||
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 | ||||||
| ### `pub fn set_char(string: &mut String, c: char, position: u64)` | #### `pub fn set_char(string: &mut String, c: char, position: u64)` | ||||||
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 | ||||||
| Edits given `string` by setting the character at index `position` to be `c`. | Edits given `string` by setting the character at index `position` to be `c`. | ||||||
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 | ||||||
| ### `pub fn add_num_to_string(string: &mut String, num: u64)` | #### `pub fn add_num_to_string(string: &mut String, num: u64)` | ||||||
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| Formats the given number into the end of the string. | Formats the given number into the end of the string. | ||||||
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 | ||||||
| ### `pub fn concat_strings(destination: &mut String, source: String)` | #### `pub fn concat_strings(destination: &mut String, source: String)` | ||||||
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| Concatenates `source` to the end of `destination`. | Concatenates `source` to the end of `destination`. | ||||||
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 | ||||||
| ### `pub fn clamp(min: f32, max: f32, value: f32) -> f32` | ## General | ||||||
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|  | #### `pub fn allocate(size: u64) -> *u8` | ||||||
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 | ||||||
|  | Unsafely allocates `size` bytes of memory from the stack, and returns a pointer to it, which must be manually freed. | ||||||
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|  | ## Maths | ||||||
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|  | #### `pub fn clamp(min: f32, max: f32, value: f32) -> f32` | ||||||
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| Returns `value` as clamped between `min` and `max`. Equivalent to `max(min(value, max), min)` | Returns `value` as clamped between `min` and `max`. Equivalent to `max(min(value, max), min)` | ||||||
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 | ||||||
| ### `pub fn abs(value: f32) -> f32` | #### `pub fn abs(value: f32) -> f32` | ||||||
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| Returns the absolute value of `value`. | Returns the absolute value of `value`. | ||||||
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