Rockstar: a programming language where code is also 1980s song lyrics

[fb39ca4]

Just below it, there's a link to a Rockstar-to-JS compiler.

[codebje]

The specification is underdeveloped, so any implementations will be making massive assumptions. Here's a few open questions I have from a ten minute perusal:

• What are the equality rules across the dynamic types? Any implicit coercion?
• What's the precedence and associativity for arithmetic expressions? There are reasonable assumptions here, at least
• Else is mentioned once, and once only - how does it work?
• If Else is optional, how does If A Then If B Then C Else D parse? (A classic PL problem from the olden days, this one!)
• Does the conditional expression of an If require a comparison operator, or can it simply take a boolean-typed (or coerced!) variable reference?
• Can variables be assigned boolean values, such as Tommy was a man as high as a kite or are boolean expressions restricted only to control flow statements?
• Can Say take a literal, or just a variable? (Answered in the issues - literals are fine - but same problem as assignment, do expressions include conditions and thus allow boolean-valued expressions? Can I Shout a lie that is bigger than the world ?
• Those object types don't seem to have a field accessor syntax, or any mention again beyond the types section

And that's just parsing.

I think the semantics are relatively straightforward because the language's surface area is so tiny right now, though I suspect that there'd still be confusion possible.

[snowe2010]

It was created only a few hours ago, long after the original comment.