The std guide

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A guided tour of the Silo programming language and its standard library.

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Front Matter

  1. Welcome to SiloAn opening tour of what Silo is and what makes it distinctive.

Chapters

  1. 1.Stack and Words
  2. 2.Control Flow
  3. 3.Quotations and Higher-Order Functions
  4. 4.Data Types
  5. 5.The Type System
  6. 6.Numerics
  7. 7.Pattern Matching
  8. 8.Traits
  9. 9.Effects, Totality, and Divergence
  10. 10.Aspects
  11. 11.Collections
  12. 12.Strings and Formatting
  13. 13.Localization
  14. 14.Temporal Types
  15. 15.Modules and Imports
  16. 16.Lifecycle: Modes, Dispose, and Memory
  17. 17.Concurrency
  18. 18.Variadic Functions and Reflection
  19. 19.Macros
  20. 20.Program Structure
  21. 21.Complete Examples

Appendices

  1. A.GlossaryLanguage-level vocabulary and research terms used throughout the handbook.