Function Library

The Sardine Pattern Language is a real programming language. It supports function calls with arguments and keyword arguments just like Python and you can combine multiple functions to create complex patterns.

Calling a function is really simple given that you know the syntax to do so. The syntax functions as follows:

• a function starts with a name wrapped in-between two parentheses: (sopr 1 2 3 4), (time), (bar).
• Functions can take any amount of arguments. Some of them will have fixed positional arguments.
  • any amount: (func 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...)
  • positional: (func 1 2) where 1 and 2 are required and other arguments get discarded.
• Some functions take keyword arguments. They are written using the ::keyword form: (disco C4 D4 E4 ::depth 2).

The documentation is the best place to learn about functions. Your code editor won't help you because the Sardine Pattern Language is written as strings and is not recognized as code by any autocompletion engine or plugin.

I will always provide indications on how to call the function, telling you the role of each argument.

• ... means that the function can take any number of arguments.
• otherwise, the function will take a fixed number of arguments whose name will be given.