Rhombus Reference🔗ℹ

This document defines the main Rhombus language bindings.

For a general overview of the language, see Rhombus.
For more bindings that support metaprograming, see Rhombus Metaprogramming Reference.
For more documentation, see Getting Started with Rhombus.

Unless otherwise specified at the start of a section, the bindings described in this manual are exported by the rhombus language.

1 Notation and Conventions

1.1 Metavariables

1.2 Documentation Entries

1.2.1 Documenting Syntactic Forms

1.2.2 Documenting Methods

1.2.3 Namespaces and Modules

1.2.4 Classes and Fields

1.3 Naming Conventions

2 Implicits and Context

2.1 Implicit Forms

2.2 Static and Dynamic Lookup

2.3 Static by Default

2.4 Unsafe Mode

3 Names and Definitions

3.1 Modules and Submodules

3.8 Mutable Variables and Assignment

4 Functions and Operators

4.1 Functions

4.2 Function Calls

4.3 Function Annotations

4.4 Operators

4.5 Recursion

5 Comparison and Branching

6 Objects and Annotations

8 Collections and Iteration

8.1 Lists

8.2 Pairs and Pair Lists

9.11.1 Serialization and Deserialization

10 Higher-Order Control

10.1 Errors

10.2 Exceptions

10.3 Continuations

10.4 Context Parameters

11 Code as Data

11.1 Syntax Objects

11.2 Syntax Classes

11.3 Simple Expression Macros

11.4 Aliases

11.5 Eval

12 String Formatting and Matching

12.1 String Formatting

12.2 Regular Expressions

12.2.1 Regexp Patterns

12.2.2 Regexp Character Sets

12.2.3 Regexp Objects

12.2.4 Regexp Match Results

13.4 File/Stream Ports

14.2 Cross-Platform Paths

14.5.3 Port Numbers and Waiting Modes

14.6 System Information and Control

14.7 Command Line Parsing

14.7.1 Command Line Parser Construction

14.7.2 Command Line Parser Parameters and Annotations

14.7.3 Command Line Parsing Classes

15 Threads and Concurrency

15.1 Threads

15.2 Semaphore

15.3 Channels

15.4 Synchronizable Events

16 Reflection and Security

16.1 Custodians

17 Runtime System

17.1 Memory Management

17.2 Measuring Time and Space

17.3 Random Number Generation

17.4 Module Collection Paths

1	Notation and Conventions
2	Implicits and Context
3	Names and Definitions
4	Functions and Operators
5	Comparison and Branching
6	Objects and Annotations
7	Basic Data
8	Collections and Iteration
9	Object Protocols
10	Higher-Order Control
11	Code as Data
12	String Formatting and Matching
13	Input and Output
14	Operating System
15	Threads and Concurrency
16	Reflection and Security
17	Runtime System