more status: BGBScript 1.5

From	BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.misc, comp.programming
Subject	more status: BGBScript 1.5
Date	2011-05-26 16:54 -0700
Organization	albasani.net
Message-ID	<irmpdc$1rd$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink)

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well, this is still more of an "if anyone cares" type thing...

but, anyways (assuming my server is up) a current version of my 
BGBScript language spec is available here:
http://cr88192.dyndns.org/SilvVMSpec/2011-05-25_BGBScript15.html

this represents a version of the language I am calling "BGBScript 1.5", 
basically as my "BGBScript 2" language effort sort of fizzled out and I 
ended up just sort of kludging some of the new features onto the 
pre-existing language/implementation, and sort of spec'ing the kludge...

yes, yes, the spec still needs a good deal of work to, errm, not suck...

mostly I just figuring maybe people might want to comment on the design 
or similar...


so, general info about the present form:
it currently has (mostly) a mix of ActionScript and Java style syntax;
it uses both dynamic and static typing, but is (sadly) at present a bit 
weakly-typed (improving type-safety is a goal along with debugging the 
thing and filling in holes in its functionality).

despite being (in total) about 7 years old, due to me being the only 
user/developer, it is still at relatively early development stages in 
many ways.

it is meant mostly as a scripting language (with most "serious" code 
being written in C and C++...).


as can be noted, it now allows both AS and Java-style declarations:
var x:int;
and:
int x;

class Foo { ... }
var x:Foo=new Foo();
and:
Foo x=new Foo();

as well:
function foo(x:float):void { ... }
and:
void foo(float x) { ... }

as well as doing mixed-style method declarations (although this is 
generally ill-advised for aesthetic/... reasons...).


but, if anyone wants to comment on the design, that would be cool, or if 
by some chance anyone really wants the VM source, I can make an 
up-to-date version available (either on-site, or me updating my 
bitbucket repository...). my VM is itself MIT-licensed, but the 
repository currently also has a far amount of code I generally plan to 
keep as proprietary (namely, all the stuff currently related to creating 
a 3D FPS-style game...).


or such...

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