RNG using operators

Introducing malbd8ge's operators

Operators are usually funny mathematical symbols that have strange behaviors. malb8dge takes that to the maximum by making almost every simple function have its own 1 or 2 symbol combination, each with their own strange behavior for every single type of value. This means that malb8dge has many, many operators. If you were programming in another language and wanted to get the absolute value of a number, like for example -3, you would usually expect there to be a function that looks like abs(-3) or (-3).abs(). But guess what - malb8dge has an operator for that instead, so abs(-3) would turn into #-3. (By the way, - is another operator, so we've actually already used two operators in this example!)

Operators come in three different types:

• Before (-x)
• After (x$)
• Binary (x + y)

The position is very important as it changes the entire meaning of the operator! Take 'x and x' for example - one converts a number to a character and vice versa, while the other rounds a number.

A list of all the operators in malb8dge can be found here.

Generating a random number

For our game, we will generate a number between 1 and 100, including both ends. Of course malb8dge has an operator for that: x?\. This will generate a random number between 1 and x. (It looks very ugly, but that's not the point of malb8dge. It will only get uglier.)

Create a new file called guessing_game.mlb8 and paste in the following code:

number = 100?\

This will generate a random number within our specified range and assign it to the variable number.

With our first piece of the puzzle in place, we can now move on to the next part: creating a loop and allowing the user to input their guesses.