Basic syntax

The syntax of nougaro

Multiple lines statements

You can make multiple lines in one statement. E.g. statement1 ; statement2. In this case, the shell just prints a list of results.

Numbers

Numbers can be written under these forms:

• 123
• -123
• +123
• 12.3
• -12.3
• +12.3
• 123e2
• -123e2
• +123e2
• 12.3e2
• -12.3e2
• +12.3e2
• 123e-2
• 123e+2
• 12.3e+2

Other bases:

• 0b01110 (base 2, binary)
• 0o17403 (base 8, octal)
• 0x4EF1A (base 16, hexadecimal)
• 0b10e30
• 0o70e30

Note that 0xA0e30 will be interpreted as the hexadecimal number A0E30. (3*16^1 + 15*16^2 + 10*16^4)

_ in numbers

Note that you can put as much underscores (_) as you want in a number (ex: 10_694_254 is the same as 10694254)

Comments

There are two comment types: single- and multi-line. Here an example of both:

# this is a single-line comment
some_code  # this is a single-line comment at the end of a line
some_other_code  /* this is a multi-line comment
  isn’t it?
  pretty cool
*/

Intrestingly, you can also do some weird things like:

/* comment */ some_code  # comment
some_code * (1 + /* comment */ 2) * /*comment*/ some_other_code

Dollar-print syntax

Not the best to start programming, but it has to be documented.

Use $identifier to print and return the value of the variable identifier. If it doesn’t exist, prints and returns the sring "$identifier". If no identifier is given, prints and returns the string "$".