Syntax

Connery is based on Lispy and like Lispy has two primary statement types, S-Expressions and Q-Expressions.

S-Expressions

An S-Expression or Symbolic Expression is evaluated as soon as it is encountered. You can think of it just like a expression that you would encounter in any other programming language. S-Expressions are wrapped in parentheses.

(print "This string will be printed.")

This string will be printed.

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Q-Expressions

A Q-Expression or Quoted Expression is just like an S-Expression except it is not evaluated immediately, instead Q-Expressions can be saved for later evaluation, this is useful for defining functions. Q-Expressions are wrapped in curly brackets.

; A function can be defined with a Q-Expression
(fun {FUNCTION_NAME FUNCTION_ARG} {print FUNCTION_ARG})
; And then later used
(FUNCTION_NAME "Hello, World!")

Hello, World!

Dictionaries

Dictionaries are a data type backed by a hash map that allows you to store any other value and look it up by key. They can be created like so.

#"key"&"value",
 "key 2"&2,
 "key 3"&"another value",
 "key 4"&"yet another value"#

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