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2 Language Reference
Subsections
2.1 Objects
2.1.1 Code Blocks
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 Optional Keyword Arguments
2.3.5 Resends
2.3.6 Subjective Dispatch
2.3.6.1 Basic mechanisms
2.3.6.2 Important features
2.3.6.3 The core elements
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
2.6.5 Blocks
The Slate Project 2004-08-06