[PLUGIN, WIP, 0.23] kRISC - kOS with a RISC heart

[Dunbaratu]

Have you looked at Jebnix and what woodywood is doing? It seems interesting but probably a lot harder to merge any code with.

[marianoapp]

Have you looked at Jebnix and what woodywood is doing? It seems interesting but probably a lot harder to merge any code with.

I'm not exactly following his project, but a quick review of the planned scope leave it very close to what kOS already has, or that could easily have if we decide to add it.

Point by point review:

Done

- Compatibility with KerboScript 0.9x

- Simplified codebase

- Formal language specification

- Better error handling, which provides the script name and location of the error

- Enhanced WHEN... THEN capability. Unambiguously allows an entire block of code to be executed on a WHEN... THEN instance

- Arrays: (with lists)

- Enumerators: (with lists)

- Boolean values

- Extended math and physics functions.

- Expandable memory

- Distance delay

- Multitasking (there is a development branch that have threads support)

- Interprocess and intercomputer communication

- Easier pitch/yaw/roll system

Easy to add

- New operators. Operators for not-equal, bitwise AND and OR, bitwise and logical NOT

- ELSE and IF ELSE blocks

- Persistant WHEN... THEN: (I want to add this for ON commands as well)

- A MEMDUMP keyword

- Leaving scripts early

A little more of work to do

- Subroutines blocks with a SUB or FUNCTION keyword: locks internally are already functions, so it wouldn't be that hard to add custom user functions

- Runtime exception handling. A TRY... CATCH block would be handy

- Return values

- Variable scope. Variables created with the LOCAL keyword would exist in their local scope

- String escape sequences

- String operations

- User prompts

- Script names storable in variables as function pointers.

[Camacha]

I must say that the most recent script name additions to Jebnix look very useful. I have been wanting that for a couple of scripts for a while now.

A big fear in this would be to have two excellent alternatives for a similar language, each with slightly different but very useful commands, forcing the user to choose. I already had visions of cobbling two units together on one craft

Edited March 11, 2014 by Camacha

[Hans Dorn]

Found a minor bug: engine:isp returns a single. If you try to apply round(), it throws an error: "can't cast <value> to double."

[marianoapp]

Found a minor bug: engine:isp returns a single. If you try to apply round(), it throws an error: "can't cast <value> to double."

Fixed

By the way this project was merged with kOS so now all the bug reports should be reported in this thread (dev) or this other thread (release).

Also the development was moved to a new github organization (https://github.com/KSP-KOS) so you can report the bugs there too.

[tom1499]

YOU SEE THIS WATER IN MY EYES! THAT WATER IS TEARS! TEARS. OF. JOY.

Now if only we could skip straight to the assembly itself.....