The language that powers the Assistant is called AssistScript. It is a custom-built language that is designed to be easy to use and easy to learn. AssistScript was specifically designed for the Assistant.
The language is an instruction based lang; every statement/unit is an instruction. Every instruction takes in a set of arguments and returns a result, other instructions can tak in the result of the previous instruction as an argument.
eg:
instruction arg1 arg2
In code these instructions are termed as commands. From now on instructions and commands will be used interchangeably.
Each term/unit inside an instruction is separated by a space. The first term is the instruction name, and the rest are the arguments.
To use a command as an argument to another command use ().
eg: command1 (command2 arg1 arg2) arg3
eg: command1 (command2 arg1 (command3 arg1 arg2)) arg3
Each command has predefined functionality. And takes in a set of arguments and returns a result; that are governed by the implementation.
To execute command one after another, enclose each command with a () and separate than with spaces. This is called command chaining.
eg: (command1 arg1 arg2) (command2 arg1 arg2) (command3 arg1 arg2)
/// TODO
A simple while loop that prints the value of i until it reaches 10
(set i 0)
(while (lt (get i) 10) (
(p "Current i = " (get i))
(set i (add (get i) 1))
))
The above code roughly translates to the following pseudocode
while (i < 10) {
print "current i = " + i
i = i + 1
}