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// Andl samples -- scalar
// Aim is to show an example of every feature
// Also useful as a quick smoke test
//=== Tokens ===
// A free expression is evaluated immediately
'hello world!'
// Single and double quoted strings are concatenated immediately
"Hel""lo" ' World' "!"
// d-string is decimal Unicode char
"Hello" & d'32 87' & "orld"
// h-string is hex Unicode char
"Hello" & h'20 57' & "orld"
// t-string is a Time
t'2015/12/31'
// i-string is an identifier
i'x( )' := 'hello world!'
i'x(' h'20' ')'
//=== Expressions ===
// Logical: all true
true = not false
3 <> 4
'ABC' > 'abc'
t'2015/12/31' < t'01/01/2016'
'Z' >= 'A' and (3<=4 or (true xor false))
// Numeric: all 42
5-8*6/4+7**2
(58 div 8) * (86 mod 8)
(9 or 7) and (9 xor 3) xor 32
// String: mostly Hello World!
'Hello' & " " & 'World!'
trim('Hello ') & ' ' & trim(' World') & trim(' ! ')
fill(' ',10) & fill('Hello Planet???', 5) & fill(' World!', 35)
before(after("@@@>>>Hello World!<<<@@@", '>>>'), '<<<')
toupper('h') & tolower('ELLO') & toupper(' w') & tolower('ORLD!')
// String: other
'hello'.length = length('world')
"Interpolate date: " & t'2015/12/31' & " number:" & 12345 & " logical:" & (2=2)
// Date:
d1 := dateymd(2015,1,31)
"Date: " & d1 & " Year:" & d1.year & " month:" & d1.month & " day:" & d1.day & " dow:" & d1.dow
// Special: if(), only evaluates one of its arguments
if(true,'Hello World!', "goodbye!")
if(2>2,1/0, 7*6)
//=== Statements ===
// Assignment -- evaluated once
v1 := 'Hello World!'
v1
// Assignment to out sends direct to output
out := v1
// Deferred assignment -- evaluated every time
v2 => v1
v2
// do block creates a local scope and returns value of last expression (statement returns void)
do {
v2 := v1
v2
}
// Deferred evaluation wiht do block
v3 => do {
v2 := v1
v2
}
v3
// Deferred evaluation with do block and arguments
v4(a) => do {
v2 := a
v2
}
// Arguments with literal types (default is text)
v5(a:'',b:0,c:false,d:d1) => do {
a & b & c & d
}
v5(v1,42,true,dateymd(2015,1,1))
// Arguments with named types
v6(a:text,b:number,c:bool,d:date) => do {
a & b & c & d
}
v6(v1,42,true,dateymd(2015,1,1))
// Recursion, function name must be typed
fact:0(n:0) => if(n<=1,1,n*fact(n-1))
fact(20)
// ===== Types =====
u1 := ut1 { n:=42, t:=v1, d:= d1 }
"n:" & u1.n & " t:" & u1.t & " d:" & u1.d
u2 := ut1 { n:=41, t:="!"&v1, d:= dateymd(d1.year+1,d1.month,d1.day) }
"n:" & u2.n & " t:" & u2.t & " d:" & u2.d
// Comparison left-to-right
u1 > u2
// Deferred function
f7(u:ut1) => do {
"n:" & u.n & " t:" & u.t & " d:" & u.d
}
f7(u1)
f7(u2)
// done