There are three functional grammars, as well as a conditional grammar and bind grammar (see control flow)
Functional grammars are used to perform operations between operands. Each operation has a left hand operand, and operator, and a right hand operand (often implicit). The grammar defines how these are syntactically placed. Sometimes the right hand operator will be on the left, while the left hand operator will be on the right. A left hand operator must be a mutable value (that is, a variable or pronoun)
The three functional grammars are: make, have, and plain
Make grammar can follow these formats:
make <lho - mutable> <operator>
make <lho - mutable> <operator> <rho - mutable>
make <lho - mutable> <operator> <rho - chain literal>
When there is no right-hand operand given, an implicit value of "" is used
Examples:
(Assign an empty chain literal plus a newline to Linus)
Make Linus scream
(Pipe Linus's value to stdout)
Make slave moan his name
(Assign "If I could just interject" to Richard)
Make Richard moan "If I could just interject"
Plain grammar can follow these formats:
<operator> <lho - mutable>
<operator> <lho - mutable> <rho - fraction literal> time/s
Plain grammar without a given rho has an implicit value of one. When the given
value of the rho is not one, times must be used. Otherwise, time is used
for a value of one, which is not actually needed, since it is the implicit
value, anyway
Examples:
(Subtract one from Luna)
Spank Luna
(Also subtract one from Luna)
Spank Luna one time
(And subtract 1023 from Luna)
Spank Luna one thousand and twenty three times
Have grammar can only follow this format
have <rho - mutable> <operator> <lho - mutable>
Example:
(Subtract Harry from Gina)
Have Harry spank Gina