Cubically

Kamil Drakari

01:43

@MDXF Cubically is officially capable of addition!

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Cubically, 10 bytes $7+7$7+7%6 Try it online! Cubically is a language relatively early in development. Its most unique feature is that its primary memory takes the form of a virtual Rubik's Cube with the colors replaced by numbers from 0 to 5. This Rubik's Cube cannot be written to, and manip...

MD XF

01:55

Yay! :D +1

MD XF

04:08

By the end of the week, Cubically will have control flow. I'm also planning on making a major change to the notepad (and possibly input buffer) but I'm still debating

TehPers

06:56

@KamilDrakari Nice! @MDXF Do you think you can remove the requirement for arguments to be passed to commands without arguments, or do you want to keep them for consistency?

TehPers

16:01

I wrote a Lua version of the interpreter

First argument is the program, and the input stream is used as Cubically's input stream.

Whoops, looks like it doesn't like to output stuff...

Actually, it doesn't work at all. Derp.

TehPers

16:40

Fixed, probably. I also added a # command to print out the cube (for debugging).

MD XF

@TehPers I'm trying to think of a way to keep the efficiency of the current method while allowing commands that don't need arguments.

@TehPers Wow, that's pretty great! Good job

TehPers

@MDXF Thanks :D

TehPers

17:37

@MDXF I know this is a lot of suggestions, so sorry about that. Have you considered implementing > and < for gt/lt? Or do you want to compare values using only =?

I'm looking at codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/127072/… and it looks like a problem that could be doable with Cubically when loops are implemented, but comparing lt/gt would involve modifying the notepad, which will mess up the sequence.

TehPers

17:55

Also, have you considered converting your scratchpad and input types to int64_t or some other fixed-width type? int is only guaranteed to be at least 16 bits, and isn't guaranteed to have exactly 16 bits.

The face values don't matter since they are only 0-81.

MD XF

18:36

@TehPers Not a bad idea, I'll add those

@TehPers Hm, maybe I'll make it int32_t (since not all machines can do int64_t)

(sorry for late responses, was doing a thing)

TehPers

@MDXF Oh I saw that challenge. Next step is to let Cubically do HTTP queries! (jk jk)

MD XF

Heh. For that it would have to have strings at all

TehPers

Nah, just have the programmer pass in ASCII values for each character, then depending on the cube state, do a GET/POST/etc request

MD XF

I'd probably give someone quite the bounty if they managed to do it in Cubically. Cubically alone can't do HTTP requests (obviously) but maybe piping Cubically into curl...

TehPers

Oh, that'd be interesting. Worth a try, at least! gets to work

Actually, curl wouldn't be enough, you'd need grep too probably.

MD XF

18:47

Nah,

+5/1+551@6:5+3/1+552@66:4/1+552@6:5+2/1+552@6:4/1+51@6:2/1+5@66:5+51@6:3/1+552@‌6:1/1+551@6:2/1+551@6:4/1+551@6:3/1+552@6:5+52@6:3/1+551@6:1/1+5@6:5+2/1+552@6:5+‌3/1+552@6:5+2/1+55@6:5+51@6:5+3/1+551@6:2/1+551@6:3/1+553@6:5+51@6:5/1+551@6:5+2/‌1+55@6:2/1+552@6:4/1+551@6:2/1+551@6:1/1+5@6:5+51@6:3/1+552@6:1/1+552@6:2/1+5@6:5‌+53@6:5+2/1+552@6:2/1+551@6:5+1/1+552@6:5+2/1+552@6:2/1+5@6

and then just an input-echoing mechanism would do it

Actually I might just try this in Cubically :P

TehPers

I was about to generate the link :(

You forgot to take the user ID as input btw

MD XF

I used your generator :)

Yeah I know

TehPers

~7@7...

MD XF

no actually

$7%7 :D

TehPers

Someone already upvoted this o_O

MD XF

18:48

holy wow that was easy

TehPers

Oh, that's much better lol

Post it!

MD XF

Yeah Seed stuff almost always gets upvoted

I will once I get the pipes working properly

TehPers

Python's random number generator is pretty simple once you wrap your head around it. I still haven't completely reversed it though, since the first key value is just assumed to be 0 rather than actually being calculated (it works for some reason though?)

MD XF

I've never done Seed, mostly because I haven't yet bothered to learn Befunge

TehPers

Oh, Befunge is pretty fun. It wasn't too difficult to learn.

MD XF

18:53

Yeah, it's just another typical 2d lang, isn't it?

TehPers

Basically.

MD XF

19:11

Aha. Cubically's & will now need an argument passed to it, and the program will only exit if the specified face sum/value is falsy.

So E6 will only exit if the notepad value is 0.

@TehPers @KamilDrakari Now Cubically has control flow. A small bit, yes, but still

TehPers

Ay that's good, I'll update my interpreter

MD XF

19:41

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A: What's my name?

Cubically + Bash, 1654 bytes This needs three Cubically scripts (named 1, 2 and 3) and 1 bash script. Bash (84 bytes): ln -s rubiks-lang /bin/r r 1 <<<$1 2>y|xargs wget 2>y cat $1|r 2 2>y|rev|r 3 2>y|rev This pipes the first Cubically script into wget, then the saved file into the second Cub...

TehPers

@MDXF Wow, nice! That's a complicated answer o_O

MD XF

Thanks! and yeah, I wish I didn't have to use so many Bash things >.<

TehPers

@MDXF Imagine if there were loops...

:P

MD XF

Nah that'd make them shorter. Possibly.

Kamil Drakari

I mean, just having a command like (6 mean "Loop from here to the end of the program until [notepad] is falsy" would shorten that particular challenge a lot

Unless you're relying on reaching the end of the program for certain situations

@MDXF Is there specified behavior for calling an input operation after already reading all input? In TIO it leaves the input buffer unchanged, but that seems like it would be difficult to detect the end of input.

Kamil Drakari

20:07

Or you could have ) be "Loop back to the ( which has the same argument, that combined with like, ? to jump over next command conditional on the value in its argument should allow somewhat arbitrary loops, as well as really complex interwoven loops that would be really hard to use correctly but might end up useful at some point.

MD XF

Oh hey that's not a bad idea

Like (<anything>......)6 loops back to ( if the notepad is truthy, (<anything>......)7 loops back to ( if the input is truthy... I like it

Kamil Drakari

That's a reasonable way to do it

The way I was saying would be (6 <anything> )6 be an infinite loop unless a command to escape were also added

MD XF

That's another option

TehPers

@MDXF I think I golfed your answer some more. U3D1R3L1F3B1U1D3 is what you and Kamil use to set a side to 1, then you can use -1 in place of :0-1/1 in file 3. No point spamming the comments there.

Kamil Drakari

But having (6 <6 loop only> (3 <both loops> )6 <3 loop only> )3 as a valid structure would be interesting

TehPers

20:16

That'd be pretty interesting... Make it so that the argument is the value of that side/notepad/whatever rather than just the digit passed in

It'd allow for more loops basically.

Kamil Drakari

There are a lot of options, depending on whether the loop operators are required to do something useful if they are passed multiple arguments

TehPers

In other words, (0F1)0 would be invalid because face 0 changed, however if there was an opening to a loop with the value 3, it'd jump to there.

Still, I actually quite like the simple version where it jumps back only if it's truthy.

In that case, you can do (<arg>, and when it jumps back, it will only jump to there if one of the args is truthy?

Kamil Drakari

Could have )<arg> be "Jump backwards if the arg is truthy" but instead of just jumping back to the first (<arg> it would stop at each one until it finds one that also has a truthy arg

Would even give some amount of meaning to multiple arguments to those operators

TehPers

@KamilDrakari Exactly!

Kamil Drakari

Not sure how easy it would be to implement that, but it's certainly a looping syntax that has both simple and complex applications, while taking advantage of Cubically's unique features

TehPers

20:27

@KamilDrakari It'd be implemented using a stack (FIFO) of loop starting locations. Each ( is put on the stack along with which args it uses, then when a truthy ) is reached, you go down the stack until you find the first truthy (. It might help to have a _ (or something) command to pop the top ( from the stack

By "go down the stack", I mean pop them until you find one, then put it back on the stack.

Kamil Drakari

This is seeming more and more like a good idea

That's probably a bad sign

TehPers

@KamilDrakari I agree.

Kamil Drakari

But that actually doesn't sound like it would be that hard to implement just using a standalone "looping stack"...

TehPers

@MDXF Whoops, it's -422, not -423 on the edit xD

Actually, just ignore me and do the math yourself. It'd be more reliable that way. I suck at math.

MD XF

20:52

I like all these ideas. I'll review them later when I have more consistent time to work on PPCG

@TehPers, thanks for the edits

TehPers

21:47

@MDXF I've implemented the ( idea in my interpreter. You can use (6 or )6 (or both) in the sample program.

(That interpreter has a few extra features too, like implicit command calling and gt/lt)

MD XF

@TehPers Which ( idea does yours use?

TehPers

( takes 0 arguments for "always jump to here", and any number of arguments for "jump to here if any argument is truthy"

) seeks backwards for the first ( it can jump to. ) takes 0 arguments for "always seek", and any number of arguments for "seek if any argument is truthy"

I haven't tested ( with multiple arguments yet. Theoretically it should work?

(It does)

MD XF

22:08

Huh, that's a fun implementation

It's painful to try to understand for the first time but pretty useful once you get used to it

Hey, sounds like Cubically, except the second part :P

@TehPers How does your interpreter guess whether or not there's going to be an argument after a parenthesis?

TehPers

while tonumber(self.program:sub(self.ptr, self.ptr)) do
self.ptr = self.ptr + 1
end

MD XF

I don't speak Lua

TehPers

Lol. It converts the current character to a number, and if it succeeds, it moves to the next one. This happens during the ) execution

Lua doesn't have a char type, so it does it like this. For C, I'd imagine you can just check if c >= '0' && c <= '9'

MD XF

Yeah, or isdigit(c). My interpreter already does that

TehPers

Ah, okay.

MD XF

22:13

But I mean, when ( is reached, does it just automatically create an empty loop?

Like, if it were to read (6, would it create a loop based on the notepad, or would it create an empty loop and a loop based on the notepad?

TehPers

It adds a label to the loop stack, containing the pointer location of ( and each argument after it. Once ) hits that (, it checks each character after it until it finds a nondigit.

@MDXF (6 would only be jumped to if the notepad was truthy.

Basically, ( can be treated as a label.

Well, a conditional label dependent on the arguments passed to it (if any).

) will jump to the first ( label where the conditions are met. My interpreter keeps track of the ( in a stack, then pops them as it's seeking backwards.

self.dir is just 1, but I have it there in case you start allowing the control flow to go backwards or something.

MD XF

Ok makes sense

I was just curious if you had the bug that I almost added to my interpreter

TehPers

Which bug?

MD XF

(6 creating two jump points (open-loops)

TehPers

Oh, I don't think my interpreter does that, but I'll check it out.

(67 is identical to (6(7, if that counts?

Also, my interpreter ignores the ( if it doesn't find a valid )

(...) is a "do-while" loop on steroids.

TehPers

23:05

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A: Restricted mini challenges Cop's Thread

Cubically, A016742 (Non-competing) This sequence is even square numbers: 0, 4, 16, 36, 64, ... Byte set: Any letter except [UuDdLlRrFfBb] Only the digits [6789] Any symbol except [-^:@/] Anything not mentioned in the ASCII character set, including whitespace. Note: This relies on this versi...

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