Language Guide

Added by Rodrigo B. de Oliveira

Welcome to the boo user guide.

Contents

• Basic Features of Boo

  • Structure of a Boo Script
  • Import
  • Comments
  • Builtin Functions Summary

• Using .NET's Standard Class Library

  • General .NET Help

  •   [String Operations](./Language-Guide:-String-Operations)
    

  •   [Site Index](https://github.com/bamboo/boo/wiki/_pages)
    

  •   [Regular Expressions](https://github.com/bamboo/boo/wiki/Regular-Expressions)
    

  •   [XML Serialization](https://github.com/bamboo/boo/wiki/XML-Serialization)
    

  •   [Generics](./Generics)
    

• Procedural Programming

  • Functions and Parameters
  • Loops
  • Exception Handling
  • Closures
  • Generators

• Types and Structures Data types Type Inference Casting Types Duck Typing Callable Types and Events User-defined value types aka structs Builtin Literals Lists And Arrays Hashtables Slicing Modules

• Object-oriented Features Classes Fields And Properties Interfaces Operator overloading Enums

• Advanced Features Macros (for developers, see also Syntactic Macros) Extensible Compiler Architecture

• Keywords with examples

• Boo.Lang.Useful

• Boo benchmarks

• Boo Compiler

• Casting Types

• Classes

• Data Types

• Enums

• Events

• Fields and Properties

• Getting Started

• Hashtables

• How to Compile

• How to Edit

• How to Run

• Interfaces

• Keywords with Examples

• Lists and Arrays

• Macros

• Multidimensional Arrays

• Operator Overloading

• Slicing

• Syntactic Macros

• Triple Quoted Strings

• Type Inference

• User-defined Value Types (structs)