L0001 Language Specification
[11 December 2023 Draft]
Introduction
Graffiticode is a collection of domain languages used for creating task specific web apis. L0001 is a Graffiticode language for writing web apis that respond with simple values such as the string “hello, world!”.
L0001 can be used as a template for deriving other, presumably more interesting and useful, languages.
1Overview
hello "world"..
renders
| hello, world!
in the browser view.
2Vocabulary
| Function | Arity | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| hello | 1 | hello "world" |
renders hello, world! in the form |
| val | 2 | val ob "x" |
returns the value of x in ob |
| concat | 1 | concat [x,y] |
returns the string value that is the concatentation of the values of x and y |
| add | 2 | add x y |
returns the sum of values of x and y |
| map | 2 | map fn [1,2,3] |
returns a list containing the result of applying fn to each element in the list [1,2,3] |
| data | 1 | data ob |
returns the value of data passed to the current task, or otherwise the value of ob |