Throughout this manual, various terms will be highlighted in different ways to indicate the type of their significance. If some concept is a certain programming utility in Slate with a definite implementation, it will be formatted in a typewriter-style. If a term is technical with a consistent definition in Slate, but cannot have a definite implementation, it will be set in SMALL CAPITAL LETTERS. Emphasis on its own is denoted by italics. When expression/result patterns are entered, typewriter-style text will be used with a Slate> prompt before the statement and its result will be set in italicized typewritten text below the line.
Finally, many of the examples assume that the full standard library
set has been loaded, or at least the fundamental set. To perform this,
execute:
'src/init.slate' fileIn.
when the interpreter is running. Additional libraries can be loaded
with a similar syntax.