sporeball / yeow

CLI helper with attitude

hi there!

we are a plural system of 3 headmates who love programming weird stuff. indie games and Eurorack are nice too!

stuff we're responsible for includes:

• naz - an esolang where every instruction is named by a number and a letter
• victus - a zero-dependency JavaScript game framework
• ABCO-1 - a hardware implementation of the OISC abcout, with additional tools
• ...and a lot more, all open-source

yeow's Issues

type checking is overzealous with numbers

because type checking for number arguments uses the unary plus, passing a number or any of the following to an argument of type string will cause yeow to fail:

• "0012"
• "0b1100"
• "0xC"
• "0o14"
• '' (converts to 0)

strings should be allowed to be strings (hi!) or numbers in base 10 without leading zeroes (250).
numbers should only be allowed to be in base 10 without leading zeroes (250).

deobfuscation needed

i have to concede: the current state of the code is pretty terrifying. i do love a good golf (victus is a prime example of that), but doing all that work myself really just created a black box which is nigh impossible to add new features on top of. i now need someone (or myself) to go back and undo that work.

the ideal solution would have to adhere to a few core tenets:

• doesn't break any existing functionality;
• makes the code intelligible;
• allows something else to do size reduction, if any.

the current version does the job in the projects in which it is used, sure - but for further development to ever occur, this needs to be accomplished first.

file arguments can only have a single extension

yeow will currently fail if an argument of type string matches /\w+\.\w+/.

this is not ideal, as it means any file passed as an argument must either have a single specific extension, matching /\.\w+/ and given as the argument's type, or absolutely none at all. the ability to use multiple extensions (or any extension!) should be available.