README.md

Bleep

Bleep is a very open language which is natively implemented in Java but can be ported to any other language.

Features

• Change how Bleep logs
• Add already existing fields, methods and classes before runtime

Syntax

Variables, Constants and Fields:

Declaring a variable is simple enough

const valueName = "This is string!";

Bleep does not have type hints, however once a variable has a type, that type cannot change

const valueName = "This is string!";
valueName = 5; // Error! `valueName`'s type cannot be changed

You can overcome this issue with the standard var syntax

var valueName = "This is string!";
valueName = 5; // It works! var does NOT lock down the type

As you can see var or const refers to whether or not the type can change, const should be the most commonly used

To define a variable which perhaps isn't so variable, you can use the field keyword

field valueName = "This is string!";
valueName = "This is string too!"; // Error! `valueName`'s value cannot be changed

Methods and some more language intro

You can declare a function like this

fun myFunction() {
    info("You ran myFunction!");
}

You have spotted logging! You can use info, warn and error for logging

You can also have parameters for your functions

fun myFunction(arg1, arg2) {
    info("You ran myFunction with " + arg1 + " and " + arg2 + "!");
}

If you need to use normal Java classes then you can use the JVM class, this is an example of how to use System.out.println

JVM.invokeMethod(JVM.getClass("java.io.PrintStream"), JVM.getField(JVM.getClass("java.lang.System"), empty, "out"), "println", "Hello System.out.println!");

Classes

You can declare a class like this

class MyClass {
    init() {
        info("Made an instance of MyClass!");
        method1();
    }
    
    method1() {
        info("Crazy!");
    }
}

You can extend a class with the < syntax

class MySecondClass < MyClass {
    init() {
        info("Get overriden >:3");
        super.init();
    }
}