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 Site Index Regular Expressions XML Serialization 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

• Exception Handling

• Fields and Properties

• Functions

• Generics

• Getting Started

• Hashtables

• How to Compile

• How to Edit

• How to Run

• Interfaces

• Keywords with Examples

• Lists and Arrays

• Loops

• Macros

• Multidimensional Arrays

• Operator Overloading

• Parameters

• Slicing

• String Operations

• Syntactic Macros

• Triple Quoted Strings

• Type Inference

• User-defined Value Types (structs)