Text (goop) - Cave Man Code

Text is anything inside quotes. goop is the word that squishes other kinds of things into text.

grunk name = "Ugg"
oga "Hello " + name
oga "I have " + goop(7) + " rocks"

Making text

Write	You get
`"hello"`	hello
`'hello'`	hello (single quotes work too)
`"line\nbreak"`	a new line inside the text
`""`	empty text
`goop(42)`	"42"
`goop(snorf(1, 2))`	"[1, 2]"
`join(snorf(1, 2), "-")`	"1-2"
`shout("hi")`	"HI"
`whisper("HI")`	"hi"
`flip("cave")`	"evac"

Looking inside text

grunk word = "caveman"

oga nom(word)          ugg 7, how many letters
oga word[0]            ugg c
oga word[-1]           ugg n
oga find(word, "man")  ugg 4
oga find(word, "z")    ugg -1 (not there)
oga "man" in word      ugg gronk
oga "cave" in word     ugg gronk

Text spots work like pile spots: spot 0 is the first letter, -1 the last. You cannot change a letter in place (word[0] = "C" is an error) because text is not a pile. Build new text instead:

grunk word = "caveman"
word = whisper(word)      ugg "caveman"
word = shout(word[0]) + word[1:]

Oops -- CMC has no slicing (word[1:])! Use skoop in a loop or build a pile of letters and join it:

clump capitalize(text)
    grunk first = shout(skoop(text, 0))
    grunk rest = ""
    grunk i = 1
    zug i < nom(text)
        rest = rest + skoop(text, i)
        i = i + 1
    unga
    ork first + rest
unga

oga capitalize("caveman")     ugg Caveman

Chopping and gluing

grunk words = split("rock,paper,scissors", ",")
oga words                ugg [rock, paper, scissors]
oga nom(words)           ugg 3

grunk sentence = join(words, " and ")
oga sentence             ugg rock and paper and scissors

split always gives a pile; join always gives text. Numbers inside a pile are automatically gooped by join.

Comparing text

oga "apple" == "apple"       ugg gronk
oga "apple" == "Apple"       ugg nork (capital letters matter)
oga "apple" < "banana"       ugg gronk (alphabetical)

To compare without caring about big/small letters, whisper both sides:

grunk a = whisper(blorp "type a word")
grunk b = whisper(blorp "type another")
binga a == b
    oga "same word!"
unga

Ideas

A word counter: oga nom(split(sentence, " "))
A shouting machine: oga shout(blorp "what should I shout?")
A backwards poem: oga flip("roses are red")

Next: Numbers and random.