The KerboScript Language

• General Features
  • Case Insensitivity
  • Expressions
  • Short-circuiting booleans
  • Late Typing
  • Lazy Globals (variable declarations optional)
  • User Functions
  • Structures
  • Triggers
• Language Syntax
  • General Rules
  • Suffixes
  • Numbers (scalars)
  • Braces (statement blocks)
  • Functions (built-in)
  • Suffixes as Functions (Methods)
  • Suffixes as Lexicon keys
  • User Functions
  • Built-In Special Variable Names
  • What does not exist (yet?)
• Flow Control
  • BREAK
  • IF / ELSE
  • CHOOSE (Ternary operator)
  • LOCK
  • UNLOCK
  • UNTIL loop
  • FOR loop
  • FROM loop
  • WAIT
  • Boolean Operators
  • DECLARE FUNCTION
  • RETURN
  • WHEN / THEN statements, and ON statements
  • PRESERVE
• Variables
  • DECLARE .. TO/IS
  • DECLARE PARAMETER
  • SET
  • UNSET
  • DEFINED
  • LOCK
  • TOGGLE
  • ON
  • OFF
  • Clobbering Built-in names:
  • Scoping terms
  • Scoping syntax
• User Functions
  • Help for the new user - What is a Function?
  • DECLARE FUNCTION
  • Using RUN ONCE or RUNONCEPATH
  • DECLARE PARAMETER
  • Calling a function
  • Optional Parameters (parameter defaults)
  • LOCAL .. TO
  • RETURN
  • Passing by value
  • Nesting functions inside functions
  • Recursion
  • Anonymous functions
  • User Function Gotchas
• Anonymous User Functions
  • Overview
  • Syntax
  • Passing in to other functions
  • Lexicon of functions
• Delegates (function references)
  • Overview
  • Why?
  • Anonymous functions
  • lib_enum in KSLib
• Advanced topics
  • Can’t call dead delegates
  • Pre-binding arguments with :bind
  • Closures
• Kinds of Delegate (no suffixes)