Basic Types

Basic Types

In TaffyScript, there are very few built in types. The ones that exist are as follows:

• Number (float)
• String
• 1-Dimensional Array
• 2-Dimensional Array
• Instance
• Delegate
• Null

Numbers

Number constants can be any numerical value with or without a decimal point (i.e. 13354 or 60.6). In addition, you can use the following two hex styles:

• Prefix with 0x - 0xFFFF00
• Prefix with ? - ?FFFF00

Strings

String constants can be any character in between single or double qoutes. There is no difference between the two. You can add a newline character by using \n.

Arrays

In order to create an array, just assign a variable to an index like so:

array1[0] = "I'm in an array!";
array2[0, 0] = "I'm in a 2-Dimensional array!";

You can also create a 1D array in the following ways:

• var arr = array_create(5)
• var arr = [0, 1, 2, 3];

An array can only have two dimensions. This may change in future versions.

Bools

There is no built-in value for true and false, but there are keywords for it. The keyword true is equal to 1 and the keyword false is equal to 0. However, any numeric value that is greater than 0 evaluates to true, and vice versa for false.

Null

A null value represents the lack of a value. Pretty similar to null in c#.

Instance

A value with the type of instance is an instance of an object. You can create an instance using the new keyword like so:

var inst = new type_name();

Delegates

A delegate is a script-like object. It can be called like a script, passed as a script argument, and be returned from scripts. To create a delegate, assign a variable to a script name:

script test {
    print("hello");
}
script main {
    var delegate = test;
    delegate();
}

You can create a delegate from an instance script as well:

object obj_test {
    script test {
        print("hello");
    }
}

script main {
    var obj = new obj_test();
    var delegate = obj.test;
    delegate();
}

You can also create delegates from lambdas:

script main {
    var delegate = script { print("hello"); }
    delegate();
}