rustpn

RustPN is a stack-based scripting language designed to extend Rust programs with runtime programmability.

Overview

All execution in RustPN shares one common data stack. It contains typed data, referred to as “items”. Item types include integers (of variable precision, decided at the creation of the interpreter), 64-bit IEEE floating point numbers, utf-8 encoded strings, booleans, symbols (think of ruby atoms, but prefixed with ‘:'), and blocks. A block is an anonymous function body, which can contain item literals and calls to functions.

Whenever an item is evaluated that is not a function call, the value is pushed onto the data stack. Whenever a function call is encountered, control is immediately transferred to either the native code implementing that function, or the RustPN block defining it.

Comments are delimited by parenthesis and do not nest.

Example

Here is an example of an iterative Fibonacci function written in RustPN:

:fib ( n -- n' ) {
    0 1 rot
    {
        over
        +
        swap
    } times
    pop
} fn

1000 fib