The LOLCODE forum

I'm speechless.

Wow.

Just, Wow.

netcat: Ah, had totally forgotten about string comparisons. I'll fix that ASAP, thanks!

Sojournist: It's written in C#.NET, with Visual Studio 8 and .NET 2. All the source is accessible through the Google Code project linked from the wiki.

I've uploaded another new version. Changes in this version:
- Assorted optimisations to the generated IL
- Command line support for lolc added - still preliminary, some options will not have any
  effect. Note that builds default to release now, to make a debug build, you will have to
  specify /debug+.
- Fixed printing of arrays using VISIBLE so it adheres to the standard.
- Improved compiler error reporting substantially.
- Added README and CHANGELOG to the package.

Edit: Uploaded Revision 19, which fixes some bugs with the compiler's evaluation of conditionals.

Last edited by Arachnid (2007-06-04 05:36:36)

I have just started looking at ways to incorporate the work that arachnid has done and apply it to the new dynamic runtime from microsoft. ill post screenshots in a day or two

garry danger: Fantastic! If you'd like to join the LOLCode.net project, just let me know.

wiccan-two: At the moment, to debug in VS, you have to:

- Make sure your program has a 'GIMMEH' line somewhere near the beginning so it'll pause
- Run your program
- Click on Debug -> Attach To Process in Visual Studio
- Select your program
- Click 'attach'.

Been playing with it Arachnid, very cool.  Any idea what it would take to get syntax highlighting going under VS?

This is excellent stuff. Just letting you know that it works perfectly under Mono 1.2.4 on Mac OS X as well :-)

I've written a short article about running this on Mono and have included a Makefile to allow it to compile on Linux or OS X at the command line.  http://www.sorn.net/?postid=88

Last edited by jaavaaguru (2007-06-20 20:11:03)

Been playing around with this for like 30 minutes now, lots of fun.

I see that you are taking input into a WORD. Perhaps you can add type casting via an "IS NOW A" operator, or add the NUMBR keyword and add input directly to that. Could do something like:

I HAS A MINIMUM
VISIBLE "Count from what? "!
GIMMEH WORD INPUT
MINIMUM R INPUT IS NOW A NUMBR

Also, possibly add support for referencing libraries, etc and setting the namespace.

CAN HAS System
CAN HAS System.IO

IM IN YR NAMESPACE LOLCodeTest
 BTW This is the main entry point.
 HAI
  VISIBLE "LOL!"
  I HAS A LOLCode TEST R NEW
 KTHXBYE

 IM IN YR CLASS LOLCode
  IM IN YR CONSTRUCTORZ
    VISIBLE "Testing!"
  IM OUTTA YR CONSTRUCTORZ
 IM OUTTA YR CLASS
IM OUTTA YR NAMESPACE

My goal would be to get it running with the XNA Framework and hopefully on the 360 at somepoint!

Yeah, I understand that. I was wondering how you are compiling it, or how I could go about compiling it at runtime? The reason is that I am working on an editor (which has LOLCode highlighting) and would like to write a plugin for it that can compile and run the LOLCode.

Here is the post about my editor: Click Me!

The goal is to get it to compile and work as a scripting language for my XNA engine, at least on Windows.

Krisc wrote:

Yeah, I understand that. I was wondering how you are compiling it, or how I could go about compiling it at runtime? The reason is that I am working on an editor (which has LOLCode highlighting) and would like to write a plugin for it that can compile and run the LOLCode.

Here is the post about my editor: Click Me!

The goal is to get it to compile and work as a scripting language for my XNA engine, at least on Windows.

Ah! Well, I've exposed it as a CodeProvider subclass, so you can reference the lolcode.net assembly and pass it files or strings to compile. If your needs are more complex, we could discuss exposing the parser and other parts of the compiler.

Arachnid, this sort of thing (integration with the host language/runtime) is very much in my sights for LOLCode as a whole in the medium-term. I want to be sure that discussions around that synch up with your availability, because we'll need your insights.

Definitely. Let me know when and I'll be there.

How can i start "programming" in lol code please help.