A C-like language to MUF translator. Rewritten from the ground up, based on the 1990's-era code from Nightfall.
Creating MUF programs is an ugly, painful, nearly write-only experience, and that's coming from the coder who designed most of the language. Why spend massive amounts of time debugging and keeping track of stack items, when you can write code in a more modern, readable language?
Instead of writing cryptic code like:
: showspecies[ -- ret ]
var obj
loc @ contents_array
foreach obj ! pop
obj @ player? if
obj @ "species" getpropstr dup not if pop "Unknown" then
obj @ "sex" getpropstr dup not if pop "Unknown" then
obj @
"%-30D %-10s %-30s"
fmtstring
me @ swap notify
then
repeat
;
You can write:
func showspecies() {
for (var obj in contents_array(loc)) {
if (player?(obj)) {
tell(
fmtstring(
"%-30D %-10s %-30s", obj,
getpropstr(obj, "sex") || "Unknown",
getpropstr(obj, "species") || "Unknown"
)
);
}
}
}
This code is in Beta. It compiles and runs cleanly on 32bit and 64bit systems, and the language is pretty much stable.
Requires a minimum of make, cc and yacc.
To build:
make
To install under /usr/local:
sudo make install
To install under /usr instead:
sudo make install ROOT=/usr
The muv program expects the input MUV source file to be given on the
command-line. The MUF output will, by default, be written to STDOUT.
Error messages will be printed to STDERR, and the return code will be
non-zero if errors were found.
muv sourcefile.muv >outfile.muf
You can use -w PROGNAME to wrap the output in MUF editor commands.
muv -w cmd-whospecies whospecies.muv >whospecies.muf
Using -o OUTFILE will write the output MUF code to OUTFILE instead
of STDOUT.
muv -o whospecies.muf whospecies.muv
Adding a -d to the command-line will add debugging code to the MUF output.
Each line of MUV will add code like: "foo.muv:23" pop to the MUF output.
muv -d -o whospecies.muf whospecies.muv
- Language reference: https://github.com/revarbat/muv/blob/master/REFERENCE.md
- TODO List: https://github.com/revarbat/muv/blob/master/TODO.md