Chaga programming language: Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Design considerations and language grammar

• About the language
• Language design philosophy
• Language grammar in Backus-Naur form

Chapter 2: Variables, datatypes, metadata attributes, and scope

• Variables
• Scope
• Arrays
• Datatypes
• DEFINE statement for user-defined datatypes
• Metadata attributes
• DECLARE statement
• SET statement
• Examples: accesing metadata attributes

Chapter 3: Functions and procedures

• Functions and Procedures
• DEFINE statement for functions and procedures
• CALL statement
• RETURN statement
• Example: calling function and procedures
• Example: variable scope in functions and procedures

Chapter 4: Selection statements

• IF-THEN statement
• IF-THEN-ELSE statement
• SWITCH statement
• BREAK statement

Chapter 5: Iteration statements

• FOR
• WHILE-DO
• DO-UNTIL

Chapter 6: Pointers

• Pointer datatype
• Accessing pointer datatypes with metadata attributes
• Pointer initialization
• Requesting memory from the heap
• Creating pointer to function example
• Creating pointer to procedure example

Chapter 7: Input and Output

• Standard input
• File input
• Standard output
• File output
• Built-in I/O functions and procedures
  • getchar function
  • read function
  • putchar function
  • print procedure
  • sprint function

Chapter 8: The Chaga string arithmetic library

• About the string arithmetic library
• Internal typedef structures
• Stringint management functions
• Stringint Boolean functions
• Stringint math functions
• Stringint miscellaneous functions
• Stringfloat management functions
• Stringfloat Boolean functions
• Stringfloat math functions
• Stringfloat miscellaneous functions

Chapter 9: The Chaga input/output library

• About the input/output library
• stringint_display
• bool_display