Disp Syntax

Disp’s syntax is homoiconic: it is authored with the same syntax that one would use to represent data. The data types that can be represented natively are:

• integers: 0..6+
• strings: “.+”
• lists: [token*]
• expressions: (token*)
• maps: {key: value, key2: value2,+}

Expressions

Expressions are represented in the language as:

(function-name arg1 arg2 ...)

This will be executed by the compiler, rather than represented as data. Sometimes, it’s valuable to defining an expression object without