Appendix D: Code Bytes

This appendix contains some commonly used snippet examples in Calyxium; designed to be searched by that search bar up ↑    give it a try!

Under Construction

For loops

As you can see in Appendix A for loops have been discontinued and are no longer accessible. For those of you who are used to imperative programming this may seem like a shock; how am I supposed to loop things? You may ask, well its pretty simple. You use the rec keyword. Below is a template for loop and how to use it.

let rec iterator(index, max)  {
    if index < max then {
        print(index)
        iterator(index + 1, max)
    }
}

iterator(0, 9)

The following code will run print 10 times.
This is a very simple for loop style function but they can get much more complex giving you more control than the standard for keyword from other languages. Calling the iterator function starts the loop and you pass in index 0 and the max loop value.
Passing in the values like this is similar to for i in range(start, end) in Python.

While loops

You can do a similar thing for a while loop with the following code.

let rec iterator() {
    print("I'm a happy while loop!")
    iterator()
}

iterator()