Bauble has a c style syntax It closely resembles JS You may even notice no difference on the first sight However Bauble is more fun Well at least it has as a keyword fun

Bauble supports a few data types Nil Boolean Number String Array Function nil nil literal true false Boolean literals 42 3 14 Number literals Hello World String literal Enclosed in double quotes 0 10 Array of numbers size 10 with initial value 0 a 5 Array of strings with initial value a fun x y return x y Function declaration

Bauble supports global and local variables Local variables has lexical scoping Variable declarations starts with keyword let let global_greet Hello world Global variable let local_greet Hello block Local variable Won t be available after block ends let uninitialized When variable gets no immediate value it is initialized to nil uninitialized 42 Initialize declared variable later unknown 10 Error You can t use variables that weren t declared

Bauble supports statements if else let temperature 21 5 if temperature > 25 print It s too hot else if temperature > 19 print It s perfect else print It s cold

Bauble currently supports only loops while let i 0 let sum 0 while i < 10 As in if statement we have condition in parentheses sum sum i i i 1 print sum

The size of an array in Bauble is fixed and can t be changed after array is created Also you must specify the initial value of array when creating it Virtual machine controls size of the array You can also use strings as arrays You can read characters in a position However you can t change the string let numbers 0 16 Array of zeroes of size 16 numbers 0 1 Set 1 to first element of the array print numbers 8 Access 9 th element of the array let err numbers 16 Accessing array beyond size results in runtime error let greeting Hello print greeting 0 Prints H greeting 0 J You can t do that

Functions are fun If function does not return value explicitly it will return fun fibonacci n Starts with `fun` keyword Accepts list of parameters if n > 2 return 1 Early return supported return fibonacci n 1 fibonacci n 2 Recursion supported nil