markwylde-presh

Presh

An ex'presh'n langauge.. for safe evaluation of arbitrary functionality in javascript.

Goals

Highly functional, stateless, easy to add scope to, expressive, readable.

Try

/example

features

Implicit returns.

halve(x){ x / 2 }

halve(2) -> 1

No assignment.

x = 5 <- Nope!

var, let, const <- Nope nope nope!

namedFunction(x){ ... } <- Sure!

Ranges.

[1..10] -> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]

[10..1] -> [10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1]

[-2..2] -> [-2,-1,0,1,2]

Spread (apply, array, object)

Apply:

sum(...args){ fold(args (a b) { a + b }) }

sum(1 2 3 4) -> 10

Array:

[0..10] -> [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]

Object:

defaults(){{a:1 b:2}}

{...defaults() c: 3} -> { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }

Literal delete:

Object:

defaults(){{a:1 b:2}}

{...defaults() c: 3 delete a} -> { b: 2, c: 3 }

usage

result = presh(expression, scope);

    var presh = require('presh');

    var result = presh('2 + thing', {
        thing: 4
    });

    if(result.error){
        // If the expression execution errored

        console.log(result.error);
    }else{
        // The expression executed without error.

        console.log(result.value);
    }

With cli

You can use the cli to run a script:

npm i -g presh
presh -e '1 + 1'

Syntax

presh syntax is similar to javascript, but a little more weighted to functional programming.

Key differences from javascript:

No commas

// Function definition
doSomething(1 2 3){
  ...
}

// Function call
doSomething(1 2 3)

// Array literal
[1 2 3]

Function Expression

    // Named
    add(parameter1 parameter2){ parameter1 + parameter2 }

    // Anonymous
    (parameter1 parameter2){ parameter1 + parameter2 }

Function Execution

    // From an identifier
    add(1 2) // -> 3

    // Anonymous
    ((x) {x+2}) (4) // -> 6

Range

    [0..100] // -> [0,1,2,3,...,98,99,100]

Looping

    map([0..100] (x){x*2})// -> [0,2,4,6,...,196,198,200]