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2 Language Reference
Subsections
2.1 Objects
2.1.1 Block Closures
2.1.2 Slot Properties
2.2 Expressions
2.2.1 Unary Message-sends
2.2.2 Binary Message-sends
2.2.3 Keyword Message-sends
2.2.4 Expression Sequences
2.2.5 Implicit-context Sends
2.3 Methods
2.3.1 Method Definitions
2.3.2 Expression-based Definitions
2.3.3 Lookup Semantics
2.3.4 Resends
2.3.5 Subjective Dispatch
2.3.5.1 Basic mechanisms
2.3.5.2 Important features
2.3.5.3 The core elements
2.3.6 Optional Keyword Arguments
2.4 Type Annotations
2.5 Macro Message-sends
2.5.1 Defining new Macro-methods
2.5.2 Quoting and Unquoting
2.5.2.1 Labelled Quotation
2.5.3 Expression Substitution
2.5.4 Source Pattern Matching
2.6 Literals
2.6.1 Characters
2.6.2 Strings
2.6.3 Symbols
2.6.4 Arrays
The Slate Project 2004-01-04