Code Monkey Dialect

This section describes the properties and behavior of the Code Monkey Dialect

This dialect is a derivative of Standard Dialect with less emphasis on verbosity. It is designed for use by primarily be software developers (as a replacement for the good-old String.Format).

The Code Monkey dialect is culture insensitive as to cover development-only needs. It supports three casing options:

• Case-insensitive, all keywords, variables and properties are matched regardless of case.
• Upper-case, all keywords are expected to be upper-case, while variables and properties are case-sensitive.
• Lower-case, all keywords are expected to be lower-case, while variables and properties are case-sensitive.

Core dialect characters:

• Tag start ({),
• Tag end (}),
• String literal start and end ('),
• String literal escape (\),
• Numeric literal decimal point (.).

To insert a literal value of { a sequence of two consecutive {{ characters is required.

The following operators are supposed by the standard dialect:

• Arithmetic neutral (+),
• Arithmetic negation (-),
• Arithmetic addition (+),
• Arithmetic subtraction (-),
• Arithmetic multiplication (*),
• Arithmetic division (/),
• Arithmetic modulo (%),
• Bitwise complement of two (~),
• Bitwise and (&),
• Bitwise or (|),
• Bitwise xor (^),
• Bitwise shift left (<<),
• Bitwise shift right (>>),
• Logical not (!),
• Logical and (&&),
• Logical or (||),
• Relational equals (==),
• Relational not equals (!=),
• Relational greater than (>),
• Relational greater than or equals (>=),
• Relational less than (<),
• Relational less than or equals (<=),
• Sequence (..),
• Format (:).

For more details see Standard Operators.

The following expression flow characters are used in the standard dialect:

• Group open ((),
• Group close ()),
• Group separator (,),
• Member access (.).

For more details see Standard Operators.

The following directives are supported:

• Interpolation ({$}),
• Conditional Interpolation ({$ IF $}),
• Preserve Formatting ({PRE}...{END}),
• Conditional Evaluation ({IF $}...{END}),
• Conditional Evaluation with Alternative ({IF $}...{ELSE}...{END}),
• Temporary Variable ({? AS $}...{END}).
• Sequence Enumeration ({FOR ? IN $}...{END}).
• Sequence Enumeration (short form) ({FOR $}...{END}).
• Sequence Enumeration (with join) ({FOR ? IN $}...{WITH}...{END}).

For more details see Standard Directives.

The following special constants are defined:

• True with a value of True.
• False with a value of False.
• NaN with a value of NaN.
• Infinite with a value of Infinite.
• Undefined with a value of Undefined.

Un-parsed text default behavior

The default is to trim excessive white-space characters for all un-parsed text. That means that all non-space characters will be replaced by space characters, and all adjacent white-spaces will be trimmed.

The {PRE}...{END} directive can be used to disable this behavior for parts of the template.