Hamster-Scripts: Syntax Overview

Code-lines

The syntax of Hamster-Scripts is line-oriented, which means, that each statement has to be written in a single line of text (the length of each line is in fact not limited):

print( uppercase( "This is a single line" ) )

print(
   uppercase( "This is NOT a single line" ) 
)

Long lines may be split into multiple lines by appending the line-continuation marker "_" to the end of the line. When the script is started, this marker is replaced by a space and the following line-break (and leading whitespace) is removed, so internally this becomes a single line again:

print( _
   uppercase( _
      "You won't believe it, but this is a single line, too!" _
   ) _
)

Comments

Comments start with a "#" character, the rest of the line is ignored:

# And now, a secret about spammers:
print( uppercase( "make money fast" ) ) # They don't have shift-keys!

print( _
   uppercase( "make money fast" ) _ # Not allowed within a line!
)

There's also a second type of comments, which may be inserted even within a line. These embedded comments are written between {braces}:

print( _
   uppercase( "make money fast" ) _ {comment within splitted line}
)

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