Literals

Literals in AiScript are a notation for writing values as strings.
Literals can be used as expressions in scripts.
Literals exist for null, truth values, numbers, strings, objects, and functions.

null

null

Boolean

true
false

Number

Notations other than decimal are not supported.

12 // Integer
-34 // Negative
52.448 // Floats

Note: The - for negative numbers can only be used with numeric literals. Notations such as -variable are not supported.

String

There are two types of literals: regular string literals that can use ' or ", and template literals that can use ` and contain expressions in the statement.

Escape syntax

Characters prefixed with ```` are interpreted as a single character, not as part of the syntax.

For example, '\"‘ is ’,
“\”`“`, for example '\”“, ``”“”, ```` ``` `` is ``` ``, `` `` {`` is interpreted as{, and `` `` `` ``. If a character has no particular syntactic meaning, it is simply ignored as `. Example: '\n' → n.
If you want to use the character \, join two of them together like '\\'.
Escape sequences are not supported.

String literal

'ここでは"を文字列に含むことができます'
"ここでは'を文字列に含むことができます"
'エスケープすれば\'を含むことができます'
"エスケープすれば\"を含むことができます"
'改行
できます'
"改行 // ここにコメントを書くと文字列の一部になります
できます" // ここは問題なし

Template literal

Literals for creating strings with embedded variables and expressions.
The entire string is enclosed in ` and the place where the expression is embedded is enclosed in { }.
If the value of the expression is not a string, then [Core:to_str](. /std.md#core-to-str-v-value-str) and converted to a string in the same way.

<: `Ai chan is No.{ 2-1 }` // Ai chan is No.1
// Line breaks are allowed. Use { Str:lf } for one line
`This statement is { true }.
Previous statement is { !true }.`
// You can escape `, {, and } by prepending \
`\` \{ \}` // ` { }

// The contents of { } must not be empty (if you want to use { } as a string, escape it)
`Everything is { } here.` // Syntax Error
// No line breaks before or after an expression (line breaks are allowed within an expression)
`Oops, something went {
	'wrong'
}!` // Syntax Error

Array

[] // Empty array
[1, 1+1, 1+1+1] // It can be separated by a colon
[1, 1+1, 1+1+1,] // You can leave trailing colon
[  // Line breaks are allowed
	'hoge'
	'huga'
	'piyo'
]
[  // Colons and line breaks can be used at the same time
	'hoge',
	'huga',
	'piyo',
]

[1 2 3] // Blank delimiters have been obseleted

Object

{} // Empty object
{ // Separated by line breaks
	a: 12
	b: 'hoge'
}
{a: 12,b: 'hoge'} // Separated by colon

// Blank delimiters have been obseleted
{a: 12 b: 'hoge'} // Syntax Error
// Semicolon delimiters have been obseleted
{a: 12; b: 'hoge'} // Syntax Error

Function

Function literals are called “unnamed functions” and are similar in form to function declaration, but without a function name. Since it is literal, it is an expression, not a statement.

var func = @(){} // Function that does nothing
// The last expression is implicitly returned
func = @(x, y) {
	x + y
}
<: func(1, 2) // 3
// You can also explicitly write return
@(x, y) {
	return x + y
}
// Line breaks at arguments are allowed
@(
	x,
	y
) {
	x + y
}
@(x,y){x+y} // One-line

Error

There is no literal for the error type, but you can use Error:create can be used to create values.