Language Syntax Reference

You have opened the manual on the syntax and semantics of the Gentee programming language. All syntactic language constructions are described here. Programming opportunities offered by the language are also described here.

This manual is not a textbook on programming. It contains the description of the official version of the language from the developers of the Gentee compiler.

Gentee is a procedural, high-level language. Its syntax has much in common with the syntax of C/C++. (This should help users master many of Gentee's features quickly.) Like the Java or C# languages, a source program is compiled into object code, which is then executed by a virtual machine.

Table of contents

• Basic language elements

  • Identifiers
  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • Binary data
  • Macros
  • Collections

• The program structure. Preprocessor

  • Comment. Character substitution
  • The define command
  • The ifdef command
  • Macro expressions
  • The include command
  • The import command
  • The public and private commands

• Types and variables

  • The type command
  • Type inheritance
  • System type methods
  • The global command
  • Local variables

• Functions methods operators

  • Function declaration: func
  • Method declaration: method
  • Redefining operator operations
  • Declaring text function
  • Properties
  • The extern command
  • Subfunction declaration: subfunc
  • Returning variables

• Statements

  • if-elif-else statement
  • switch statement
  • while and do statements
  • for and fornum statements
  • foreach statement
  • return, break, continue instructions
  • label and goto instructions
  • with statement

• Expressions and operators

  • Arithmetic operators
  • Logical operators
  • Assignment operators
  • Type reduction
  • Fields and pointers
  • Calling functions and methods
  • The conditional operator ?
  • Late binding operation
  • Table of operator precedence

• Appendix

  • Gentee Language in BNF