Do you love Whitespace but find the tooling inadequate? PHPWhitespace is just what you've been waiting for!
PHPWhiteSpace is a simple class that allows you to write your whitespace programmes in php, and then output them as Whitespace!
Of course, a lot of existing Whitespace programmes are already valid php programmes.
Whitespace is a dependently spaced language created by Edwin Brady and Chris Morris in 2003.
There are a number of interpreters. I've used one written in php by Igor Weidler, which is available on github.
You're telling me I can write a program in php, convert it to Whitespace, and then run the Whitespace program in a Whitespace interpreter written in php?!
Yes! Awesome, isnt' it!
Simples:
$ws = new mattp\PHPWhiteSpace();
$ws->push(0); // Push 0 onto the stack
$ws->push(5); // Push 1 onto the stack
$ws->push(97); // Push 97 onto the stack
$ws->add(); // Add the top two numbers on the stack
$ws->store(); // Store the value on the top of the stack (102)
// at the position given by the next value on the stack (0)
// So 102 is now at location 0 of the heap
$ws->push(4); // Put 4 on the stack
$ws->duplicate(); // Duplicate the value on the top of the stack
$ws->subtract(); // Now 0 is on top of the stack
$ws->retrieve(); // Retrieve the value from location 0 of the heap and put it on the stack
$ws->write_character(); // Write the value on the top of the stack (102) as a character (f)
$whitespace_code = $ws->export();
The $whitespace_code is the whitespace representation of the program you have written.
The Whitespace tutorial lists and explains
the various instructions available. These are all methods on the PHPWhiteSpace class.