Nougat Documentation

Table of Contents

I - Introduction

• 1.1 About Nougat
• 1.2 Development History
• 1.3 Acknowledgements

II - Nougat as Language

• 2.1 Influences
• 2.2 Backus-Naur Form Definition
• 2.2.1 Reserved Keywords
• 2.2.2 Grammar Definition
• 2.3 Execution Procedures
• 2.3.1 Lexical Analysis
• 2.3.2 Abstract Syntax Tree Generation
• 2.3.3 Semantic Analysis
• 2.3.4 Execution/Runtime

III - Environment Set-up

• 3.1 System Requirements
• 3.2 Downloading and Installing
• 3.3 Getting Started

IV - Programming

• 4.1 Expressions
• 4.1.1 Literals
• 4.1.1.1 Numbers
• 4.1.1.2 Bools
• 4.1.1.3 Nil
• 4.1.1.4 Strings
• 4.1.2 Operators
• 4.1.2.1 Pre-expressional Operators
• 4.1.2.2 Binary Operators
• 4.1.3 Arrays & Maps
• 4.1.3.1 Arrays
• 4.1.3.2 Maps
• 4.1.4 Lambdas
• 4.2 Comments
• 4.3 Variables & Functions
• 4.3.1 Variables
• 4.3.2 Functions
• 4.3.2.1 The main() Function
• 4.4 Statements
• 4.4.1 Render
• 4.4.2 If, Else If, and Else
• 4.4.3 Switch, Case, Default
• 4.4.4 Looping
• 4.4.4.1 While Loop
• 4.4.4.2 Do-While Loop
• 4.4.4.3 Iteration
• 4.4.4.4 Break and Continue
• 4.4.5 Error Handling
• 4.4.5.1 Throwing Object
• 4.4.5.2 Try, Catch, Finally
• 4.4.6 Go-thread Concurrency
• 4.4.7 Return Values
• 4.4.8 Deferrals
• 4.5 File Inclusion

V - Library Plug-ins

• 5.1 What is a Library Plug-in?
• 5.2 Creating New Library Plug-in
• 5.3 Returning Arrays and Maps
• 5.4 Using a Proxy Bridge For Callbacks

VI - The Standard Library

• 6.1 Array Functions
• 6.2 I/O Functions
• 6.3 Language Utility Functions