Added support for Birb

[Calamity210]

Added support for a custom language(Birb)

[RunDevelopment]

Thank you for making this language definition @Calamity210!

However, I don't know if we can merge this.
My main problem is that there is no language specification or detailed documentation for Birb. Without such a document, I have no way of knowing that your language definition is actually correct.

Right now, the documentation for your language is too little for others to work with. Specifically for this PR, the doc is inconsistent with the Prism language definition. E.g. at no point does the doc mention triple-quote string literals and the doc explicitly states that single-quote string literals can be multiline but that isn't supported by the language definition.

The lack of documentation also means that the language definition will be practically unmaintainable since we won't be able to review any patches or enhancements to the Birb language definition either.

Thoughts? @Calamity210 @mAAdhaTTah

[Calamity210]

For sure makes sense to me, the triple quotes was actually incorrect, Birb doesnt support it. Mind if I request a review from you once our docs are improved? @RunDevelopment

[RunDevelopment]

Sure!

(Maybe add a comment with a link to the docs to your language definition once you're finished.)

[Calamity210]

@RunDevelopment We are still working on an api documentation, but the tour documents the complete syntax. https://birbolang.web.app/docs/ this document contains more or less everything about Birbs syntax itself as it stands right now, what exactly are you looking for with the docs?

[RunDevelopment]

what exactly are you looking for with the docs?

Prism highlights concepts (functions, classes, operators, ...), so when reading through language documentation, I'm always looking for all the concepts the language has to offer. I then go through each concept and look for its syntax (most docs do this via examples but some even give you the BNF grammar of single concepts or even the whole language).
To summaries: I look for everything the language can do and how that is expressed in code.

I think the doc is ok in that regard. One of the nice sides of a minimal language is that you don't need a lot of documentation to describe it.

Ready for review?

---

Also, I'm a little curious as to how Birb infers the type of a variable with var. Example:

var a = 100; // clearly int
var b = 0.5; // clearly double
var c = 1e2; // int or double?
var d = 1e100; // too big for int, so is it a double?

[Calamity210]

Ready for review?

Yeah, lets do it!

Also, I'm a little curious as to how Birb infers the type of a variable with var. Example:

var a = 100; // clearly int
var b = 0.5; // clearly double
var c = 1e2; // int or double?
var d = 1e100; // too big for int, so is it a double?

var is still being worked on to better handle edge cases, but in the case you provided above, both c and d would be doubles. Exponential numbers in birb are doubles by default.

[RunDevelopment]

Here's the review.

Apart from my comment, please use tabs for indentation. There are a few lines where tabs and spaces are mixed.

[Calamity210]

Here's the review.

Apart from my comment, please use tabs for indentation. There are a few lines where tabs and spaces are mixed.

Had I mixed them, i had a bit of a brainfog the day I worked on this, ill correct this along with the comments in a bit. Thanks!

[Calamity210]

@RunDevelopment I've taken a look at the comments and corrected them. I removed the pattern I had for functions as it seemed like I was misunderstanding something. Everything else should be fine afaict.

[RunDevelopment]

Looks good!

To resolve the merge conflicts, run npm run build after merging Prism's master branch and commit everything as is.

[Calamity210]

Looks good!

To resolve the merge conflicts, run npm run build after merging Prism's master branch and commit everything as is.

Yup give me one min

[Calamity210]

Resolved @RunDevelopment

[RunDevelopment]

Thank you for contributing @Calamity210!