NAME
Acme::Brainfuck - Embed Brainfuck in your perl code
SYNOPSIS
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use Acme::Brainfuck;
print 'Hello world!', chr ++++++++++. ;
DESCRIPTION
Brainfuck is about the tiniest Turing-complete programming language you can get. A language is Turing-complete if it can model the operations of a Turing machine--an abstract model of a computer defined by the British mathematician Alan Turing in 1936. A Turing machine consists only of an endless sequence of memory cells and a pointer to one particular memory cell. Yet it is theoretically capable of performing any computation. With this module, you can embed Brainfuck instructions delimited by whitespace into your perl code. It will be translated into Perl as parsed. Brainfuck has just just 8 instructions (well more in this implementation, see "Extensions to ANSI Brainfuck" below.) which are as follows
Instructions
- + Increment
-
Increase the value of the current memory cell by one.
- - Decrement
-
Decrease the value of the current memory cell by one.
- > Forward
-
Move the pointer to the next memory cell.
- < Back
-
Move the pointer to the previous memory cell.
- , Input
-
Read a byte from Standard Input and store it in the current memory cell.
- . Output
-
Write the value of the current memory cell to standard output.
- [ Loop
-
If the value of the current memory cell is 0, continue to the cell after the next ']'.
- ] Next
-
Go back to the last previous '['.
Extensions to ANSI Brainfuck
This implementation has extra instructions available. In order to avoid such terrible bloat, they are only available if you use the verbose pragma like so:
use Acme::Brainfuck qw/verbose/;
The extra instructions are:
- ~ Reset
-
Resets the pointer to the first memory cell and clear all memory cells.
- # Peek
-
Prints the values of the memory pointer and the current memory cell to STDERR. See also "Debugging" below.
Debugging
By using the debug pragma like this:
use Acme::Brainfuck qw/debug/;
you can dump out the generated perl code. (Caution: it is not pretty.) The key to understanding it is that the memory pointer is represented by $p, and the memory array by @m Therefore the value of the current memory cell is $m[$p].
RETURN VALUE
Each sequence of Brainfuck instructions becomes a Perl block and returns the value of the current memory cell.
EXAMPLES
JABH
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use Acme::Brainfuck;
print "Just another ";
++++++[>++++++++++++++++<-]>
++.--
>+++[<++++++>-]<.>[-]+++[<------>-]<
+.-
+++++++++.---------
++++++++++++++.--------------
++++++.------
>+++[<+++++++>-]<.>[-]+++[<------->-]<
+++.---
+++++++++++.-----------
print " hacker.\n";
Countdown
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use Acme::Brainfuck qw/verbose/;
print "Countdown commencing...\n";
++++++++++[>+>+<<-]
>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<<
++++++++++[>>.-<.<-]
print "We have liftoff!\n";
Reverse
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use Acme::Brainfuck qw/verbose/;
while(1)
{
print "Say something to Backwards Man and then press enter: ";
+[->,----------]<
print 'Backwards Man says, "';
[+++++++++++.<]<
print "\" to you too.\n";
~
}
Math
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use Acme::Brainfuck;
use strict;
use warnings;
my $answer = +++[>++++++<-]> ;
print "3 * 6 = $answer \n";
VERSION
1.1.1 Apr 06, 2004
AUTHOR
Jaldhar H. Vyas E<lt>jaldhar@braincells.comE<gt>
THANKS
Urban Mueller - The inventor of Brainfuck.
Damian Conway - For twisting perl to hitherto unimaginable heights of weirdness.
Marco Nippula <http://www.hut.fi/~mnippula/> - Some code in this module comes from his brainfuck.pl
Mr. Rock - Who has a nice Brainfuck tutorial at http://www.cydathria.com/bf/. Some of the example code comes from there.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2004, Consolidated Braincells Inc.
Licensed with no warranties under the Crowley Public License:
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the license."