Daslang 0.6.2 Reference Manual

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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Design Philosophy
• 3. The language
  • 3.1. Program Structure
  • 3.2. Lexical Structure
  • 3.3. Values and Data Types
  • 3.4. Pointers
  • 3.5. Constants, Enumerations, Global variables
  • 3.6. Statements
  • 3.7. Expressions
  • 3.8. Function
  • 3.9. Block
  • 3.10. Lambda
  • 3.11. Generator
  • 3.12. Struct
  • 3.13. Class
  • 3.14. Tuple
  • 3.15. Variant
  • 3.16. Bitfield
  • 3.17. Type Aliases
  • 3.18. Array
  • 3.19. Table
  • 3.20. Iterator
  • 3.21. Comprehension
  • 3.22. String Builder
  • 3.23. Modules
  • 3.24. Move, Copy, and Clone
  • 3.25. Clone
  • 3.26. Finalizer
  • 3.27. Temporary types
  • 3.28. Unsafe
  • 3.29. Generic Programming
  • 3.30. Pattern matching
  • 3.31. Annotations
  • 3.32. Options
  • 3.33. Macros
  • 3.34. Reification
  • 3.35. AST Matching
  • 3.36. Built-in Functions
  • 3.37. Lint Tools
• 4. The Runtime
  • 4.1. Context
  • 4.2. Locks
  • 4.3. Very safe context
  • 4.4. Type Mangling
• 5. Embedding and Integration
  • 5.1. Quick Start
  • 5.2. C++ API Reference
  • 5.3. C API Reference
  • 5.4. External Modules
  • 5.5. Project Files (.das_project)
  • 5.6. Advanced Topics
• 6. LINQ-fold patterns — what _fold(...) recognizes
• 7. daslang strudel vs strudel.cc — Feature Comparison