Awesome Library of Extensions

ALEx is meant to be a publicly avaliable repository of extensions for the Quackery programming language created by Gordon Charlton. At the time of its creation the language doesn't have a significant community that I know of, but I hope someone interested in Quackery finds this repo useful.

All extensions are described inside their files.

Usage guide

There are a couple of ways to use ALEx depending on how much you are comfortable with downloading and how many extensions you need.

Clone the repository

If you are going to be using almost every extension provided in the repository you can just clone it with git. They should be cloned into a folder 'ALEx' in the directory you are running Quackery from. Then you can copy the ALEx-loader.qky into the Quackery directory and add it to your extensions.qky. It will handle loading extensions from the 'ALEx' folder, just uncomment relevant lines in yout ALEx-loader.qky.

The added convenience is that any updates can be performed by pulling the repository and copying the ALEx-loader.qky.

Download extensions and use ALEx-loader

If you wish to use a substantial amount of extensions provided here but don't want to clone the whole repo you can make the 'ALEx' folder yourself and download any extensions you need by hand. You then can download ALEx-loader.qky, uncomment relevant lines and add it to your extensions.qky. It will handle loading extensions from the 'ALEx' folder. Be careful to make sure that either your system supports file.path or you downloaded the filepath.qky extension.

Download only extensions

If you only wish to use a couple of extensions you can just download them and add to your extensions.qky. They are just Quackery files after all, you don't need any fancy loaders to use them.

Assumptions about the system

Some extensions may require the system with the protect breaks bailed issue resolved.

Some extensions may require file.path support which, if not provided by the system, can be loaded from filepath.qky. ALEx-loader.qky requires either file.path system support or filepath.qky among the extensions in the 'ALEx' folder.

Contents

• ALEx-loader.qky

  Used to load extensions. Should be copied up a directory. Assumes the folder with ALEx extensions is called 'ALEx'.

  Author: Aleksander "olus2000" Sabak

• bigrat.qky

  Big rational number operations.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• binary-search.qky

  Rightmost binary search.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• brainfuck.qky

  brainfuck interpreter.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• filepath.qky

  Support for relative and scoped paths.

  Author: Aleksander "olus2000" Sabak

• higher-order.qky

  Higher order functions. fold, foldr, map, filter

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• lookup-table.qky

  Lookup table/association table/dictionary implementation.

  Author: Aleksander "olus2000" Sabak

• merge-sort.qky

  Replaces the default sorting words with a more efficient algorithm.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• priority-queue.qky

  Priority queue implementation.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• sundry.qky

  Some words that were considered for Quackery core words.

  • # footnotes – more ways of making comments.
  • [peek] [poke] – like peek and poke but can dive into nested nests.
  • switch case otherwise – a switch statement.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• template.qky

  Template for your own extension. Feel free to submit pull requests with your work.

  Author: Aleksander "olus2000" Sabak