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.TH HOC 1
.SH NAME
hoc \- interactive floating point language
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B hoc
[
.I file ...
]
[
.B -e
.I expression
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Hoc
interprets a simple language for floating point arithmetic,
at about the level of BASIC, with C-like syntax and
functions.
.PP
The named
.I files
are read and interpreted in order.
If no
.I file
is given or if
.I file
is
.L -
.I hoc
interprets the standard input.
The
.B -e
option allows input to
.I hoc
to be specified on the command line, to be treated as if it appeared in a file.
.PP
.I Hoc
input consists of
.I expressions
and
.IR statements .
Expressions are evaluated and their results printed.
Statements, typically assignments and function or procedure
definitions, produce no output unless they explicitly call
.IR print .
.PP
Variable names have the usual syntax, including
.LR _ ;
the name
.L _
by itself contains the value of the last expression evaluated.
The variables
.BR E ,
.BR PI ,
.BR PHI ,
.BR GAMMA
and
.B DEG
are predefined; the last is 59.25..., degrees per radian.
.PP
Expressions are formed with these C-like operators, listed by
decreasing precedence.
.TP
.B ^
exponentiation
.TP
.B ! - ++ --
.TP
.B * / %
.TP
.B + -
.TP
.B > >= < <= == !=
.TP
.B &&
.TP
.B ||
.TP
.B = += -= *= /= %=
.PP
Built in functions are
.BR abs ,
.BR acos ,
.BR asin ,
.B atan
(one argument),
.BR cos ,
.BR cosh ,
.BR exp ,
.BR int ,
.BR log ,
.BR log10 ,
.BR sin ,
.BR sinh ,
.BR sqrt ,
.BR tan ,
and
.BR tanh .
The function
.B read(x)
reads a value into the variable
.B x
and returns 0 at EOF;
the statement
.B print
prints a list of expressions that may include
string constants such as
\fL"hello\en"\f1.\fP
.PP
Control flow statements are
.BR if - else ,
.BR while ,
and
.BR for ,
with braces for grouping.
Newline ends a statement.
Backslash-newline is equivalent to a space.
.PP
Functions and procedures are introduced by the words
.B func
and
.BR proc ;
.B return
is used to return with a value from a function.
.SH EXAMPLES
.EX
func gcd(a, b) {
temp = abs(a) % abs(b)
if(temp == 0) return abs(b)
return gcd(b, temp)
}
for(i=1; i<12; i++) print gcd(i,12)
.EE
.SH SOURCE
.B \*9/src/cmd/hoc
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.MR bc (1) ,
.MR dc (1)
.br
B. W. Kernighan and R. Pike,
.I
The Unix Programming Environment,
Prentice-Hall, 1984
.SH BUGS
Error recovery is imperfect within function and procedure definitions.
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