Documentation

(These files are incomplete and outdated, but may provide some hints for now.)

• eel-presentation.txt

• eel-language.txt

• eel-grammar.txt

• eel-io.txt

• eel-dsp.txt

• eelbox.txt

Examples

/////////////////////////////////////////////
// Based on the Lua "Ackermann's Function"
// test code by Doug Bagley, for
// The Great Computer Language Shootout.
//
// EEL version by David Olofson, 2004, 2005
/////////////////////////////////////////////

function Ack(M, N)
{
	if not M
		return N + 1;
	else if not N
		return Ack(M - 1, 1);
	else
		return Ack(M - 1, Ack(M, N - 1));
}

export procedure test[n]
{
	if specified n
		local N = n;
	else
		N = 1;
	local t = getms();
	print("  Trying ", N, "...\n");
	print("    Ack(3,", N, "): ", Ack(3, N), "\n");
	print("      Time: ", getms() - t, " ms\n");
}

export function main
{
	if specified args[1]
		test((integer)(args[1]));
	else
	{
		print("Ackermann test:\n");
		test();
		test(2);
		test(3);
		if Ack(3, 1) != 13
			throw "Ack(3, 1) should return 13!";
		if Ack(3, 2) != 29
			throw "Ack(3, 2) should return 29!";
		if Ack(3, 3) != 61
			throw "Ack(3, 3) should return 61!";
		print("Ackermann test done.\n");
	}
	return 0;
}