monkey - Programming Language implementation in Java

This is a Java implementation of Thorsten Ball's Monkey Programming Language from his great book Writing An Interpreter in Go.

Features

• Tokenizer
• Lexer
• Parser
• AST
• Builtin Functions
• if/else
• Arrays & Maps
• Function Literals
• Closures
• REPL ([Read Eval Print Loop](Read Eval Print Loop))

Examples

Precedence and Operators

5 * 5 + 10;
3 + 4 * 5 == 3 * 1 + 4 * 5;
5 * 10 > 40 + 5;
((10 + 2) * 30) == (300 + 20 * 3);
(10 + 2) * 30 == 300 + 20 * 3;
500 / 2 != 250;

Bool type

puts(true == true);
puts(false == true);

if

if (5 * 5 + 10 > 34) { puts(99) } else { puts(100) }

let a = 5;
let b = a > 3;
let c = a * 99;

if (b) { 10 } else { 1 };

let d = if (c > a) { 99 } else { 100 };

d * c * a;

String type

You can also see how function literals can be used.

let hello = "Hello there, fellow Monkey users and fans!"
let giveMeHello = fn() { "Hello!" }

giveMeHello();

Arrays

let myArray = ["one", "two", "three"];

len(myArray);
first(myArray);
rest(myArray);
last(myArray);
push(myArray, "four")

Hash

let myHash = {"name": "Jimmy", "age": 72, "band": "Led Zeppelin"};

myHash["name"];
myHash["age"];
myHash["band"];

Functions

let two = "two";

let h = { "one": 10 - 9, two: 1 + 1, "thr" + "ee": 6 / 2, 4: 4, true: 5, false: 6};

h["one"];

let addTwo = fn(x) { x + 2; };
addTwo(2);

let multiply = fn(x, y) { x * y };
multiply(50 / 2, 1 * 2);

fn(x) { x == 10 }(5);

false;

fn(x) { x == 10 }(10);

true;

Requirements

• Java, this project uses the JDK 16.
• Maven.

Build

To build the .jar file, just type:

$ make

or you could just run:

$ mvn clean package

Run

To run the REPL (Read Evaluate Print Loop):

make run

or:

java --enable-preview -jar target/monkeyj-jar-with-dependencies.jar

Running the examples

There are a few code examples of the language in the examples directory. To run them, you can use the following command:

$ java --enable-preview -jar target/monkeyj-jar-with-dependencies.jar < examples/strings/concat1.mnk

Donation / Sponsorship ❤️ 👍

This code was brought to you by Leo Gutiérrez in his free time. If you want to thank me and support the development of this project, please make a small donation on PayPal. In case you also like my other open source contributions and articles, please consider motivating me by becoming a sponsor/patron on Patreon. Thank you! ❤️