Grammar

The syntax of the noname language is described through its grammar.

We use a notation similar to the Backus-Naur Form (BNF) to describe the grammar:

land := city "|"
 ^        ^   ^
 |        |  terminal: a token
 |        |
 |      another non-terminal
 |
 non-terminal: definition of a piece of code
city := [ sign ] "," { house }
        ^            ^
        optional     |
                    0r or more houses
sign := /a-zA-Z_/
        ^
        regex-style definition

There are some comments in the parser code (parser.rs) that attempt to define this grammar.

Essentially, it is made to look like Rust, but with some differences of philosophies:

• expressions cannot be statements, unless they return no value (act using side effects).