Contents

• List of Figures
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Conventions
  • 1.2 Terms
  
  
• 2 Language Reference
  • 2.1 Objects
  • 2.2 Sending Messages
  • 2.3 Sequencing Expressions
  • 2.4 Methods
  • 2.5 Type Annotations
  • 2.6 Macro Message-sends
  • 2.7 Literal Syntax
  
  
• 3 The Slate World
  • 3.1 Overall Organization
  • 3.2 Core Behaviors
  • 3.3 Introspection
  • 3.4 Traits
  • 3.5 Blocks, Booleans, and Control-Flow
  • 3.6 Symbols
  • 3.7 Magnitudes and Numbers
  • 3.8 Collections
  • 3.9 Streams and Iterators
  • 3.10 External Resources
  • 3.11 Paths
  • 3.12 Exceptional Situations and Errors
  • 3.13 Concurrency
  • 3.14 Types
  • 3.15 Modules
  • 3.16 Persistence
  
  
• 4 Style Guide
  • 4.1 Environment organization
  • 4.2 Naming Methods
  • 4.3 Instance-specific Dispatch
  • 4.4 Organization of Source
  • 4.5 Type-Annotating Expressions
  • 4.6 Writing Test Cases
  
  
• Bibliography
• Index