GOTO 10
GOTO 10 is a programming language with only GOTO statements. Execution starts on the line(s) with the line number 10.
Syntax
A program is a collection of lines. Lines beginning with REM are comments. Otherwise, a valid line consists of a line number, GOTO, an expression, and an optional WITH clause, consisting of WITH and an expression.
Spaces are ignored, so the following lines are valid and equivalent:
10 GOTO 10
10GOTO10
10 GO TO 1 0
1 0 G OT O10
0000010 GO TO 010
EBNF grammar
program = { line, "\n" } ;
line = comment-line | goto-line ;
comment-line = [ number ], "REM", { ? non-newline character ? } ;
goto-line = number, "GOTO", expression, [ "WITH", expression ] ;
number = digit, { digit } ;
digit = "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | "6" | "7" | "8" | "9" ;
expression = number
| ( "I" | "N" ), [ "(", expression, ")" ]
| expression, "+", expression
| expression, "-", expression
| expression, "*", expression
| expression, "/", expression
| "(", expression, ")" ;
Execution
Execution is done by a number of threads in discrete steps, with each thread executing a single GOTO statement simultaneously in a step.
If the target of a GOTO statement does not exist, the thread executing it dies. If all threads die, execution stops.
If there are multiple lines with the line number targeted by a GOTO statement, the thread executing it forks, with one thread per target for the next step.
The WITH clause causes the total number of threads going to the target line from the given line to be the value of the WITH expression instead of the number of threads executing the given line. So a GOTO statement without a WITH clause is equivalent to one with a WITH N clause.
Expressions
Expressions are integer expressions. The +, -, *, / are the conventional integer addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operators. Division by zero results in a run-time error that stops execution.
The special symbol I reads input. I evaluates to the next bit of input, while I(x) evaluates to the next x bits of input as a little-endian integer. If x <= 0, I(x) = 0. At EOF, I = -1 and I(x) = -1. If x is greater than the number of input bits remaining, I(x) evaluates to the remaining input bits.
The special symbol N is the number of threads executing the statement, and N(x) is the number of threads that came from line x. On the initial execution of line 10, N = 1, and N(x) = 0.
Output
At each step, if the number of threads going to line 0 is greater than 0, then that number minus 1 is output as little-endian bits.
Examples
Hello world
10 GOTO 20 10 GOTO 0 WITH 6379151218083139189807317952019 20 GOTO 0
cat
10 GOTO 0 WITH I+1 10 GOTO 10 WITH I+1