LiveScript (programming language)
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| LiveScript | |
|---|---|
| Paradigms | multi-paradigm, functional, object-oriented |
| Designed by | Jeremy Ashkenas, Satoshi Murakami, George Zahariev |
| Developers | (same) |
| First appeared | 2011 |
| Template:Infobox software/simple | |
| Typing discipline | dynamic, weak |
| Scope | Lexical |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| License | MIT |
| Filename extensions | .ls |
| Influenced by | |
| JavaScript, Haskell, CoffeeScript, F# | |
LiveScript is a functional programming language that transpiles to JavaScript. It was created by Jeremy Ashkenas, the creator of CoffeeScript, along with Satoshi Muramaki, George Zahariev, and many others.[2] (The name may be a homage to the beta name of JavaScript; for a few months in 1995, it was called LiveScript before the official release.[3])
Syntax
LiveScript is an indirect descendant of CoffeeScript.[4] The following "Hello, World!" program is written in LiveScript, but is also compatible with CoffeeScript:
hello = ->
console.log 'hello, world!'
While calling a function can be done with empty parens, hello(), LiveScript treats the exclamation mark as a single-character shorthand for function calls with zero arguments: hello!
LiveScript introduces a number of other incompatible idioms:
Name mangling
At compile time, the LiveScript parser implicitly converts kebab case (dashed variables and function names) to camel case.
hello-world = ->
console.log 'Hello, World!'
With this definition, both the following calls are valid. However, calling using the same dashed syntax is recommended.
hello-world!
helloWorld!
This does not preclude developers from using camel case explicitly or using snake case. Dashed naming is however, common in idiomatic LiveScript[5]
Pipes
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A pipe operator |> passes the result of an expression on the left of the operator as an argument to the expression on the right of it. LiveScript supports these, as do some other functional languages such as F# and Elixir; the argument passed in F# is the last one, but in Elixir is the first one.
"hello!" |> capitalize |> console.log
# > Hello!
Operators as functions
When parenthesized, operators such as not or + can be included in pipelines or called as if they are functions.
111 |> (+) 222
# > 333
(+) 1 2
# > 3
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."LiveScript Releases". GitHub. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."LiveScript contributors page". GitHub. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chapter 4. How JavaScript Was Created". speakingjs.com. Archived from the original on 2020-02-27. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."LiveScript - a language which compiles to JavaScript".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."prelude.ls - a functionally oriented utility library in LiveScript".
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