The Reference

The specification of Luce Base: every rule of the language and the reason for it. It is the document the compiler is held to; where the Tour and the Guide simplify, this is exact.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Design principles
• 3. Source text
• 4. Literals
• 5. Types
• 6. Bindings and initialisation
• 7. Expressions
• 8. Control flow
• 9. Functions and methods
• 10. Structs, enums, and unions
• 11. Absence, failure, and traps
• 12. Memory
• 13. Generics
• 14. Interfaces
• 15. Atomics, volatile, and threads
• 16. Modules, packages, and tests
• 17. Calling C
• 18. Working with full Luce
• 19. Compilation and runtime
• 20. Exclusions
• 21. Grammar
• 22. C to Base
• 23. Relationship to Luce 1.0
• 24. Examples