ALEx is meant to be a publicly avaliable repository of extensions for the Quackery programming language created by Gordon Charlton. At the time of its creation the language doesn't have a significant community that I know of, but I hope someone interested in Quackery finds this repo useful.

All extensions are described in detail inside their files.

There are a couple of ways to use ALEx depending on how much you are comfortable with downloading and how many extensions you need. For ALEx-loader config guide check ALEx-loader.qky.

If you are going to be using almost every extension provided in the repository you can just clone it with git. Then you can copy the ALEx-loader.qky into the Quackery directory and configure it properly. You will then be able to load any extension in the folder.

The added convenience is that any updates can be performed by pulling the repository and copying the ALEx-loader.qky if it was updated.

If you wish to use a substantial amount of extensions provided here but don't want to clone the whole repo you can download any extensions you need by hand into a dedicated folder. You then can download ALEx-loader.qky and configure it properly.

Be careful to make sure that you have met all dependencies, including filepath for ALEx-loader.qky.

If you only wish to use a couple of extensions you can just download them and add to your extensions.qky. They are just Quackery files after all, you don't need any fancy loaders to use them.

You may need to comment out lines at the start of extensions that depend on other extensions. Make sure to load them in the correct order so all dependencies are met.

Some extensions may require filepath support which, if not provided by the system, can be loaded from filepath.qky. ALEx-loader.qky requires either filepath system support or filepath.qky to be loaded beforehand.

Some extensions may depend on other extensions.

• ALEx-loader.qky

  Includes a word for loading the extension and a configurable path for the extension folder.

  Author: Aleksander "olus2000" Sabak

• template.qky

  Template for your own extension. Feel free to submit pull requests with your work.

  Author: Aleksander "olus2000" Sabak

• bigrat.qky

  Big rational number operations.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• binary-search.qky

  Rightmost binary search.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• brainfuck.qky

  brainfuck interpreter.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• filepath.qky

  Support for relative and scoped paths. Obsolete with current versions of Quackery.

  Author: Aleksander "olus2000" Sabak

• higher-order.qky

  Higher order functions. fold, foldr, map, filter

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• literal.qky

  A word for proceduraly generating values at build-time.

  Author: Aleksander "olus2000" Sabak

• lookup-table.qky

  Lookup table/association table/dictionary implementation.

  Author: Aleksander "olus2000" Sabak

• merge-sort.qky

  Replaces the default sorting words with a more efficient algorithm.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• priority-queue.qky

  Priority queue implementation.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• sundry.qky

  Some words that were considered for Quackery core words.

  • # footnotes – more ways of making comments.
  • [peek] [poke] – like peek and poke but can dive into nested nests.
  • switch case otherwise – a switch statement.

  Author: Gordon Charlton

• types.qky

  A simple object system for easy polimorphism.

  Depends on: lookup-table.qky

  Author: Aleksander "olus2000" Sabak