Jump Command

[phase]

Putting code in loops can get big, so why not have a jump command? I was thinking R would be good.

[refi64]

How exactly would this work?

[phase]

Pop a number off the stack and go to that position in the code. Or maybe two numbers because it's two dimensional source code.

[ghost]

By position, do you mean character?

[refi64]

Side note: this is way more complicated than it seems, since you have to handle things like jumping into strings and arrays and code blocks (what happens when you do 4R"abcdefg"?).

[phase]

@Hipe99 Yes, the character with the position popped.

@kirbyfan64 I think that's a good "feature" to have. "1o1R"1R would push a string to the stack, then jump inside that string and print 1 over and over. Using parts of strings as code could be useful for compressing stuff.

[refi64]

@phase Very true. What did you mean by 2-dimensional? I thought O was 1-dimensional...

[phase]

The row and column in the source code.

  0123456789
0 1o
1 "hi"o

[ghost]

eh, do newlines count for anything?

[jamen]

Essentially a goto operator? I also think the position should be done linearly not via line and column. A language in my experience rarely needs to use lines and columns internally besides for debugging, unless it is based around it somehow (which would be annoying in my opinion).

[phase]

I'm not to keen on the idea now. If we have to use manual jumps instead of the control flow operators that are built in, we're using the language wrong.