Possible BUKKIT Implementation

[kierajreed]

I HAS A TEST ITZ []

PUT "hello" IN TEST

todo: accessing contents

[AlexisGoodfellow]

For information storage, I'd go with SHUV <var> INTO <numbr_index> OF <bukkit>.

Provided with the language should be the special values FRUNT and BAK for each end of the bukkit. This syntax should be SHUV <var> INTO FRUNT OF <bukkit> and SHUV <var> INTO BAK OF <bukkit>.

As for accessors, I think GRAB <numbr_index> FRUM <bukkit> should do nicely (again, with FRUNT and BAK builtins).

For removing elements from the bukkit, I suggest REMOOV <numbr_index> FRUM <bukkit> (again, with FRUNT and BAK builtins).

[ghost]

Same syntax can work for associative arrays: lose the FRUNT and BAK (only for associative arrays), and use a <yarn_key> instead of <numbr_index>.

Possibly can integrate both into the same storage system (i.e. same BUKKIT can hold both indexed and associative array entries)

[AlexisGoodfellow]

After becoming a little older and wiser, these are now my thoughts:

1. I'm in favor of associative arrays being BUKKITs
2. I also think we should have numerically indexed LIZTs

FRUNT and BAK should only apply to LIZT, but the SHUV/GRAB/REMOOV syntax seems like it could be used by both LIZTs and BUKKITs. If so, they'll need to have different initialization syntax so that the interpreter/compiler can have a deterministic parse tree.

To that end, I'm in favor of the syntax I HAS A VAR ITZ EMTEE_BUKKIT and I HAS A VAR ITZ EMTEE_LIZT, respectively. This ensures that the grammar of LOLCODE doesn't change significantly and makes the initialization constants easily tokenizable.

[alecgargett]

I think the indexing system when GRABBIN should be "FURST WUN", "SEKENT WUN", "FURD WUN", "FORF WUN" and so on up to "TENF WUN" and then from then on "11F WUN" and so on.

So:

GRAB FURST WUN FRUM <bukkit>

I think this negates the need for "FRUNT" and instead of "BAK" I suggest negative indexing starting with "LAAS WUN" so that we can continue with "SEKENT LAAS WUN" and so on.

When inserting I suggest "BEFOR" and "AFTUR" and "IN" as in:

SHUV <var> BEFOR FURST WUN IN <bukkitt>

SHUV <var> AFTUR FURST WUN IN <bukkitt>

SHUV <var> AFTUR LAAS WUN IN <bukkitt>