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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. Greeting
    3. Assignment
    4. Constants
    5. For loop and float expressions
    6. Arrays
    7. Hashes
    8. For loop and containers
    9. Functions
    10. Parameters
    11. Overloading
    12. Templates
    13. Declare a statement
    14. Template declaring a statement
  3. DECLARATIONS
    1. Variable declarations
    2. Constant declarations
      1. Type declarations
      2. Procedure declarations
      3. Function declarations
      4. Abstract data type
      5. Template
    3. Initialization
      1. How the initialization works
    4. Syntax declarations
    5. System declarations
    6. Pragmas
  4. PREDEFINED STATEMENTS
    1. Assignment
    2. Ignoring values
    3. while-statement
    4. repeat-statement
    5. for-statement
    6. for-until-statement
    7. for-step-statement
    8. for-each-statement
    9. for-each-key-statement
    10. for-key-statement
    11. if-statement
    12. 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. enumeration
    15. bin64
    16. bin32
    17. bstring
    18. color
    19. time
    20. duration
    21. file
    22. text
    23. fileSys
    24. database
    25. sqlStatement
    26. process
    27. category
    28. reference
    29. ref_list
    30. program
    31. ptr
    32. func
    33. varfunc
    34. void
    35. proc
    36. type
    37. object
    38. expr
  6. PARAMETERS
    1. 'val' parameter
    2. 'ref' parameter
    3. 'in' parameter
    4. 'in var' parameter
    5. 'inout' parameter
    6. Call-by-name parameter
    7. Symbol parameter
    8. '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. FILE INPUT AND OUTPUT
    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. Transport Layer Security
    11. User defined file types
    12. Scanning a file
  9. STRUCTURED SYNTAX DEFINITION
    1. The Extended Backus-Naur Form
    2. The Seed7 Structured Syntax Description
    3. The syntax of a statement
    4. Priority and associativity
    5. The syntax of operators
    6. Syntax of predefined statements
    7. Advanced syntax definitions
    8. 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. Brackets
    3. Literals
      1. Integer literals
      2. BigInteger literals
      3. Float literals
      4. String literals
      5. Character literals
    4. Unicode characters
  11. EXPRESSIONS
    1. Parentheses
    2. Call expressions
    3. Dot expressions
  12. OPERATING SYSTEM ACCESS
    1. Standard path representation
    2. File properties
      1. fileType
      2. fileSize
      3. getFileMode
      4. setFileMode
      5. getATime
      6. setATime
      7. getCTime
      8. getMTime
      9. setMTime
      10. getOwner
      11. setOwner
      12. getGroup
      13. setGroup
    3. Symbolic links
      1. readLink
      2. finalPath
      3. makeLink
      4. Symbolic link getFileMode
      5. Symbolic link getATime
      6. Symbolic link getMTime
      7. Symbolic link setMTime
      8. Symbolic link getOwner
      9. Symbolic link setOwner
      10. Symbolic link getGroup
      11. Symbolic link setGroup
    4. Directory functions
      1. readDir
      2. openDir
      3. getcwd
      4. chdir
      5. makeDir
      6. homeDir
    5. Maintenance functions
      1. removeFile
      2. removeTree
      3. copyFile
      4. cloneFile
      5. moveFile
    6. Environment
      1. argv(PROGRAM)
      2. name(PROGRAM)
      3. path(PROGRAM)
      4. dir(PROGRAM)
      5. file(PROGRAM)
      6. getenv
      7. setenv
      8. unsetenv
      9. environment
  13. DATABASE ABSTRACTION API
    1. Opening a database connection
      1. Opening an Oracle database connection
      2. Opening a Db2 database connection
      3. Opening a SQL Server database connection
      4. Opening a SQLite database connection
      5. Opening an Informix database connection
      6. Opening an ODBC database connection
    2. Other ways to open a database connection
    3. Prepared statements
    4. Bind values to placeholders
    5. Execute a prepared statement
    6. Fetch records from the result set
    7. Get columns from fetched records
  14. GRAPHIC LIBRARY
    1. Basics
  15. PRIMITIVE ACTIONS
    1. Actions for the type ACTION
    2. Actions for array types
    3. Actions for the type bigInteger
    4. Actions for the types bin32 and bin64
    5. Actions for the type boolean
    6. Actions for byte strings
    7. Actions for the type char
    8. Actions for various directory, file and other commands
    9. Actions for text (console) screen output
    10. Actions for declarations
    11. Actions to do graphic output
    12. Actions for enumeration types
    13. Actions for the type clib_file
    14. Actions for the type float
    15. Actions to support the graphic keyboard
    16. Actions for hash types
    17. Actions for the type integer
    18. Actions for interface types
    19. Actions to support the text (console) screen keyboard
    20. Actions for the list type
    21. Actions for the type process
    22. Actions for the type pollData
    23. Actions for proc operations and statements
    24. Actions for the type program
    25. Actions for the type reference
    26. Actions for the type ref_list
    27. Actions for struct types
    28. Actions for set types
    29. Actions for the type PRIMITIVE_SOCKET
    30. Actions for the types database and sqlStatement
    31. Actions for the type string
    32. Actions for the type time
    33. Actions for the type type
    34. Actions for the type utf8File
  16. FOREIGN FUNCTION INTERFACE
    1. C types used by the implementation
    2. String conversions
    3. Operating system string and path conversions
    4. Macros to access the action parameters
    5. Functions to create action results
    6. Memory management macros
    7. Basic conversion functions
    8. Error handling
  17. ERRORS
    1. Parsing errors
    2. Compilation errors
    3. Exceptions
      1. MEMORY_ERROR
      2. NUMERIC_ERROR
      3. OVERFLOW_ERROR
      4. INDEX_ERROR
      5. RANGE_ERROR
      6. FILE_ERROR
      7. DATABASE_ERROR
      8. GRAPHIC_ERROR
      9. ILLEGAL_ACTION
    4. Handlers
    5. Trace exceptions
    6. Stack trace
    7. Suppressing exception checks
    8. Signals
    9. Other errors and warnings
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