Butter Language Manual

Stepan Rutz

Copyright © 2001 by Stepan Rutz

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Table of Contents

Latest version and complaints

Package contents

Requirements

Requirements runtime
Requirements compiler

Compile and Install

2. Quickstart

The Butter quickstart
The classic "Hello world" example

3. Grammar and Syntax

Lexical conventions

How the sourcecode is parsed

Expressions

Literals and atomic symbols in expressions
Unary arithmetic operators
Binary arithmetic operators
The bitwise operators
The logical operators
The assignment operators
The sequence operator

Programs are lists of statements
More words on If/Else statements
Global variables, and the init/exit blocks

Defining and invoking functions
Recursion

Defining a structure
Constructor and destructor semantics
Member functions

Limitations and warnings
Defining an array

4. Applications

Synopsis
Compiler invocation

Synopsis
Runtime invocation

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