Pyr Language Reference

Literals

Pyr currently supports the following literals:

• Literals
  • Integer
  • Boolean
  • String
  • Arrays

Integer

Integers in Pyr are 64 bit signed integers.

123

Type: int

Boolean

Booleans in Pyr are secretly integers with true as 1 and false as 0.

true # returns 1
false # returns 0

Type: int

String

Strings in Pyr are delimited by double quotes.
For escaping things like double quotes, you can use a backslash.
Multiline strings are also supported.

"Hello, World!"
"Newlines\n"

To see what are the supported escape sequences are, look at Supported Escape Sequences

You can also index into strings.

"Hello, World!"[0] # returns "H"

Type: string

Arrays

Arrays in Pyr starts with the types of the elements, followed by the elements delimited with square brackets and separated by commas.

int[] # returns an empty array of integers
int[123, 456] # returns an array of integers with two elements
string["Hello, World!"] # returns an array of strings with one element

When initializing an array, you can specify an element then clone the element by the given length.

int[0; 30] # returns an array of 30 zeros
int[1, 2, 3; 10] # returns int[1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1]

You can index into an array with the index.

int[1, 2, 3; 10][1] # returns 2

Type: [type; len] where type is the type of the elements and len is the length of the array.
Note: Currently, arrays cannot be converted to strings.