Create a new repository for the language specification of Brain-Flak about brain-flak HOT 2 CLOSED

It's funny that you mention that, because I have actually been thinking about writing a javascript interpreter for a while now. :) I agree that it would be nice to have a specification, but I don't know if it's worth making a separate repository for it. Is the description in the README not precise enough? I suppose one thing I can think of that the current version does that is left unspecified in the README is how the value of the {} is not reset after each loop. (which is why {{}} can sum the stack). Beyond that, there are some things I don't think we necessarily should specify, and instead leave that up to the interpreter. For example, I think ASCII mode is worth specifying, but I'm not sure if we should inlcude things like

• File input VS command line args
• Alternate overflow/underflow modes
• Debug flags
• Unicode mode
• Separate input and output formats (To allow for decimal in ASCII out, or vice versa).

Not that any of these are bad features, I just view them as interpreter perks.

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Actually the differentiation between specifications and interpreter perks was the main thing I was interested in seeing in the specification. Namely how overflow/underflow should work and what the minimum maximum height of the stack should be.

As for about being in a separate repository, I felt that commits that tweaked the specification would create clutter when looking through the history of the repository as updates to the example programs have done (one of the things I have been meaning to do for a while is to migrate the example programs out of the README and into this repository's wiki). Speaking of the wiki, I was taking a look back at how it works and I was thinking that it might be the ideal place for such a thing (I had previously overlooked the wiki because I thought that it did not give you the ability to leave a description attached to your change like a commit message, but it turns out I was mistaken).

from brain-flak.