Syntax

goboscript has a syntax inspired from languages such as C, Rust, and Python. Whitespace and indentation has no semantic significance. Statements end in semicolons.

Comments

# single-line comments are the only option.

Numbers

0b111 # Binary:      8
0xFF  # Hexadecimal: 255
0o777 # Octal:       511
1024  # Decimal:     1024
3.141 # Float:       3.141

Strings

"Hello, World!"
"Hello, \"World\"!"
"\u1234" # Unicode escape
"\n" # Newline
"\t" # Tab

Booleans

true is replaced with 1 during compilation.

false is replaced with 0 during compilation.

Boolean Coercion

Scratch does not allow placing a non-boolean block inside a boolean input. (With the exception of item # of list and item of list). goboscript will automatically coerce non-boolean blocks into conditions by wrapping them in a comparison with 1.

if timer() {
    ...
}

is equivalent to

if timer() == 1 {
    ...
}