Oi the language

Syntax

Oi's syntax is pretty simple! Everything is an expression, expressions all return values, and every expression looks something like this:

Expressions 42 # numbers are important! 42 < 2 # this is really a method call 😱 "foo" # strings are like this list(1, 1<2, "foo") # this is actually a method call too!

And that's it! Although that operator syntax is not really syntax, but rather sugar on top of it. 🎂

There's a subtlety here that we skipped over: even something like 42 or list is actually a method call to an implicit context object. It's all method calls, all the way down! 🐢💥

Simple types

Oi understands integers, strings and booleans.

Simple type examples 42 true false "What is the purpose of life?"

More types

Oi understands lists and method calls (but not definitions yet).

Examples of methods list list() list(1, "foo", list(2, "bar"), list)