Opcode: null

Parameters

``

Description

Evaluates to the immediate null value and cannot have any parameters. Null is returned any time there would be a not-a-number result (NaN), such as dividing zero by zero or adding null to a number, or when intermixed with string operations.

Details

• Permissions required: none
• Allows concurrency: false
• Requires entity: false
• Creates new scope: false
• Creates new target scope: false
• Value newness (whether references existing node): null

  Examples

  Example:

  .null
  

  Output:

  .null
  

  Example:

  (lambda .null )
  

  Output:

  .null
  

  Example:

  (lambda
  	
   #annotation
   .null
  )
  

  Output:

  #annotation
  .null
  

Amalgam Opcodes

Opcode: bool

Parameters

``

Description

A boolean value that may hold true and false as .true and .false respectively.

Details

• Permissions required: none
• Allows concurrency: false
• Requires entity: false
• Creates new scope: false
• Creates new target scope: false
• Value newness (whether references existing node): new

  Examples

  Example:

  .true
  

  Output:

  .true
  

  Example:

  .false
  

  Output:

  .false
  

Amalgam Opcodes

Opcode: number

Parameters

``

Description

A 64-bit floating point value. Note that .infinity and -.infinity are used to denote infinite values and not-a-number is transformed into a null value.

Details

• Permissions required: none
• Allows concurrency: false
• Requires entity: false
• Creates new scope: false
• Creates new target scope: false
• Value newness (whether references existing node): new

  Examples

  Example:

  1
  

  Output:

  1
  

  Example:

  1.5
  

  Output:

  1.5
  

  Example:

  6.02214076e+23
  

  Output:

  6.02214076e+23
  

  Example:

  .infinity
  

  Output:

  .infinity
  

  Example:

  (-
   (* 3 .infinity)
  )
  

  Output:

  -.infinity
  

Amalgam Opcodes

Opcode: string

Parameters

``

Description

A string. Many opcodes assume UTF-8 formatted strings, but many, such as format, can work with any bytes. Internally, the string is just a sequence of bytes, but when specifying a string to be parsed, \ is the escape character and the values that can be escaped are null character as , \ as \, " as \", tab as ` , newline as , and carriage return as `.

Details

• Permissions required: none
• Allows concurrency: false
• Requires entity: false
• Creates new scope: false
• Creates new target scope: false
• Value newness (whether references existing node): new

  Examples

  Example:

  "hello"
  

  Output:

  "hello"
  

  Example:

  "	Hello
  \"Hello\""
  

  Output:

  "	Hello
  \"Hello\""
  

Amalgam Opcodes

Opcode: list

Parameters

[* node1] [* node2] ... [* nodeN]

Description

Evaluates to a list with the parameters as elements. Pushes a new target scope such that (target), (current_index), and (current_value) access the list itself, the current index, and the current value. If []’s are used instead of parenthesis, the keyword list may be omitted. [] are considered identical to (list).

Details

• Permissions required: none
• Allows concurrency: true
• Requires entity: false
• Creates new scope: false
• Creates new target scope: true
• Value newness (whether references existing node): conditional

  Examples

  Example:

  ["a" 1 "b"]
  

  Output:

  ["a" 1 "b"]
  

Amalgam Opcodes

Opcode: unordered_list

Parameters

[* node1] [* node2] ... [* nodeN]

Description

Evaluates to the list specified by parameters as elements. Pushes a new target scope such that (target), (current_index), and (current_value) access the unordered list itself, the current index, and the current value. It operates like a list, except any operations that would normally consider a list’s order. For example, union, intersect, and mix, will consider the values unordered.

Details

• Permissions required: none
• Allows concurrency: true
• Requires entity: false
• Creates new scope: false
• Creates new target scope: true
• Value newness (whether references existing node): conditional

  Examples

  Example:

  (unordered_list 4 4 5)
  

  Output:

  (unordered_list 4 4 5)
  

  Example:

  (unordered_list
   (unordered_list 4 4 5)
   (unordered_list 4 5 6)
  )
  

  Output:

  (unordered_list
   (unordered_list 4 4 5)
   (unordered_list 4 5 6)
  )
  

  Example:

  (=
   (unordered_list 4 4 5)
   (unordered_list 4 4 5)
  )
  

  Output:

  .true
  

  Example:

  (=
   (unordered_list 4 4 5)
   (unordered_list 4 4 6)
  )
  

  Output:

  .false
  

  Example:

  (=
   (unordered_list 4 4 5)
   (unordered_list 4 4 5)
  )
  

  Output:

  .true
  

  Example:

  (=
   (set_type
       (range 0 100)
       "unordered_list"
   )
   (set_type
       (reverse
           (range 0 100)
       )
       "unordered_list"
   )
  )
  

  Output:

  .true
  

Amalgam Opcodes

Opcode: assoc

Parameters

[bstring index1] [* value1] [bstring index1] [* value2] ...

Description

Evaluates to an associative list, where each pair of parameters (e.g., index1 and value1) comprises a index-value pair. Pushes a new target scope such that (target), (current_index), and (current_value) access the assoc, the current index, and the current value. If any of the bareword strings (bstrings) do not have reserved characters or whitespace, then quotes are optional; if whitespace or reserved characters are present, then quotes are required. If {}’s are used instead of parenthesis, the keyword assoc may be omitted. {} are considered identical to (assoc)

Details

• Permissions required: none
• Allows concurrency: true
• Requires entity: false
• Creates new scope: false
• Creates new target scope: true
• Value newness (whether references existing node): conditional

  Examples

  Example:

  (unparse
   {b 2 c 3}
  )
  

  Output:

  "{b 2 c 3}"
  

  Example:

  (unparse
   {.null 0 (+ 1 2) 3}
  )
  

  Output:

  "{.null 0 (+ 1 2) 3}"
  

Amalgam Opcodes