Cell Tail - A esoteric 1d-automata based programing language

Quick Reference

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Operators

• + Plus or concatenate
• - Subtract or concatenate
• * Multiply or concatenate
• / Divide or concatenate
• ^ Bitwise XOR or concatenate

Patterns

• & And
• | Or
• a..b Between a and b (exclusive). A and B must be expressions.

Patterns may contain expressions, but any variables must appear alone first.

Functions

Work more like macros

fn name argument: value;

Functions may not call other functions. Use name argument to call a function.

Options

• D=T; or Debug=True; Show intermediate values
• D=F; or Debug=False; Show only final result (default)
• I=C C; or Input = Cmd Characters; Take input as character codes (default)
• I=C N; or Input = Cmd Numbers; Take input as comma seperated numbers
• I=1,2; Input is 1,2
• O=C; or Output = Characters; Output as characters
• O=N; or Output = Numbers; Output as comma seperated numbers
• M=5; or Max= 5; Limit to max 5 iterations

Full Specification