Manual for the Seed7 programming language

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION
   1. What is Seed7?
   2. Why a new programming language?
   3. Features of Seed7
   4. How to read the manual
2. TUTORIAL
   1. Hello world
   2. Local declarations and expressions
   3. For loop and float expressions
   4. Parameters
   5. Declare a statement
   6. Template declaring a statement
3. DECLARATIONS
   1. Normal declarations
   2. Syntax declarations
   3. System declarations
4. PREDEFINED STATEMENTS
   1. Assignment
   2. while-statement
   3. repeat-statement
   4. for-statement
   5. for-each-statement
   6. if-statement
   7. case-statement
5. PREDEFINED TYPES
   1. boolean
   2. integer
   3. bigInteger
   4. rational
   5. bigRational
   6. float
   7. complex
   8. char
   9. string
   10. array
   11. hash
   12. set
   13. struct
   14. category
   15. reference
   16. ref_list
   17. program
   18. ptr
   19. ENUMERATION
   20. color
   21. time
   22. duration
   23. file
   24. text
   25. func
   26. varfunc
   27. void
   28. proc
   29. type
   30. object
   31. expr
6. PARAMETERS
   1. 'val' parameter
   2. 'ref' parameter
   3. 'in' parameter
   4. 'in var' parameter
   5. 'inout' parameter
   6. Symbol parameter
   7. 'attr' parameter
7. OBJECT ORIENTATION
   1. Interface and implementation
   2. Dynamic dispatch
   3. Inheritance
   4. Class methods
   5. Multiple dispatch
   6. Replacing pointers with interface types
8. THE FILE SYSTEM
   1. Conversion to strings and back
   2. Basic input and output operations
   3. Input and output with conversion
   4. Simple read and write statements
   5. Standard input and output files
   6. Access to operating system files
   7. Keyboard file
   8. Files with line structure
   9. Sockets
   10. User defined file types
   11. Scanning a file
9. STRUCTURED SYNTAX DEFINITION
   1. The Extended Backus-Naur Form
   2. The syntax of a statement
   3. Priority and associativity
   4. The syntax of operators
   5. Syntax of predefined statements
   6. Advanced syntax definitions
   7. Comparison of EBNF and S7SSD
10. TOKENS
    1. White space
       1. Spaces
       2. Comments
       3. Line comments
    2. Identifiers
       1. Name identifiers
       2. Special identifiers
       3. Parentheses
    3. Literals
       1. Integer literals
       2. String literals
       3. Character literals
11. EXPRESSIONS
    1. Parentheses
    2. Call expressions
    3. Dot expressions
12. OPERATING SYSTEM ACCESS
    1. Directory access
    2. Other directory operations
    3. fileType
    4. fileMode
    5. setFileMode
    6. fileSize
    7. getATime
    8. getCTime
    9. getMTime
    10. setATime
    11. setMTime
    12. readlink
    13. symlink
    14. removeFile
    15. removeAnyFile
    16. copyFile
    17. cloneFile
    18. moveFile
    19. argv
    20. getenv
13. PRIMITIVE ACTIONS
    1. Actions for the type ACTION
    2. Actions for array types
    3. Actions for the type bigInteger
    4. Actions for the type boolean
    5. Actions for byte strings
    6. Actions for the type char
    7. Actions for various directory, file and other commands
    8. Actions for declarations
    9. Actions to do graphic output
    10. Actions for enumeration types
    11. Actions for the type PRIMITIVE_FILE
    12. Actions for the type float
    13. Actions to support the graphic keyboard
    14. Actions for hash types
    15. Actions for the type integer
    16. Actions for interface types
    17. Actions to support the text (console) screen keyboard
    18. Actions for the list type
    19. Actions for proc operations and statements
    20. Actions for the type program
    21. Actions for the type reference
    22. Actions for the type ref_list
    23. Actions for text (console) screen output
    24. Actions for struct types
    25. Actions for set types
    26. Actions for the type PRIMITIVE_SOCKET
    27. Actions for the type string
    28. Actions for the type time
    29. Actions for the type type
    30. Actions for the type utf8_file
14. ERRORS
    1. Compile time errors
    2. Exceptions
    3. Handlers
    4. Stack trace
    5. Other errors and warnings