MiniD 1 Language Specification

This is the specification for version 1 of MiniD. The version 1 spec was frozen as of May 2007 and version 1 of the library was released the following August.

The reference implementation of MiniD 1 is no longer supported. To be honest, MiniD 1 was a coarse, unfinished thing, and I don't really consider it MiniD ;)

• Introduction - A brief overview of the language, with some small examples.
• MiniD 1 Specification
  • Compilation - Describes the process of compiling source text into an executable form.
  • Execution - How the compiled MiniD code is actually run.
  • Lexical - The very basic textual bits that the language is made up of.
  • Expressions - The algebraic language syntax of MiniD.
  • Statements - Various language constructs.
  • Types - A description of the various data types in MiniD.
  • Declarations - How one declares and initializes variables.
  • Functions - How to declare functions and what they can do.
  • Classes - The object-oriented aspects of MiniD.
  • Modules - The largest blocks of organization in MiniD, and how to work with them.
  • Metamethods - How to customize the behavior of objects and perform operator overloading.
  • Grammar - The (mostly-correct) EBNF grammar for MiniD.
• Standard Library - The library of code which accompanies MiniD.
  • Base Library - The bare minimum library needed to get MiniD working.
  • Array Library - A library of common array functions.
  • Character Library - Character classification and modification.
  • IO Library - A library providing basic file IO.
  • Math Library - Regular old math functions.
  • OS Library - Some OS-dependent functionality.
  • RegExp Library - String manipulation and matching with regular expressions.
  • String Library - Functions for manipulating strings.
  • Table Library - Operations on tables.