Akaza

A cool Whitespace language implementation in Ruby.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'akaza'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install akaza

• RUBY_VERSION > '2.6'
  • It needs pattern match feature.

require 'akaza'

# It use $stdin and $stdout
Akaza.eval(whitespace_code)

# Use other IO
input = StringIO.new(something)
output = StringIO.new
Akaza.eval(whitespace_code, input: input, output: output)

You can find example Whitespace programs from test/fixtures/ directory.

The basic usage is good, but it is not fun. Akaza provides really "cool" interface to define a method with Whitespace. You can write Whitespace in Ruby program directly!

For example:

require 'akaza'

class A
  extend Akaza::Annotation

  whitespace def sum(a, b)
 	  

 	  input=StringIO.new("#{a}\n#{b}\n")
	  output=StringIO.new 	
 	



    Akaza::Body
    
	
		    
		output.string.to_i	
	
end
end

a = A.new
p a.sum(20, 22) # => 42

Cool! You no longer need to write Whitespace as a string literal. You can write Whitespace in Ruby seamlessly. It is elegant!

• Space, tab and newline in method body are evaluated as Whitespace program.
  • Other characters are ignored for Whitespace, but they are evaluated as Ruby program.
• Akaza::Body is replaced with Whitespace code.
• input and output variables are necessary. They are IO.

Akaza provides a shorthand. If Akaza::Body is omitted, the method only evaluates Whitespace program. The method receives input and output.

For example:

require 'akaza'

class A
  extend Akaza::Annotation

  whitespace def sum(input, output)
 	  

 	  
This	code is never evaluated.	
 	



So you can write any
sentences as comments!  
	
		    
			
	
end
end

a = A.new
input = StringIO.new("20\n22\n")
output = StringIO.new
a.sum(input, output)
p output.string # => "42"

You can convert Ruby to Whitespace. It is an easy way to write Whitespace.

See https://github.com/pocke/akaza/blob/master/doc/ruby2ws.md

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/pocke/akaza.