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Rhombus Reference🔗ℹ

This document defines the main Rhombus language.

For a general overview of the language, see Rhombus Guide.
For additional metaprogramming support, see Rhombus Metaprogramming Reference.
For general concepts of the language, see Rhombus Language Model.
For even more, see the full Rhombus Documentation.

package: rhombus-lib

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

3.6 Definitions

3.7 Multiple Values

3.8 Mutable Variables and Assignment

4 Functions and Operators

4.2 Function Calls

4.3 Function Annotations

5 Comparison and Branching

5.1 Conditionals

5.4 Annotations

5.6 Unit Testing

6 Objects and Annotations

6.5 Enumerations

7.7 Byte Strings

7.9 Source Locations

7.11 Weak References

8 Collections and Iteration

8.2 Pairs and Pair Lists

8.3 Mutable Lists

8.7 Repetitions

9 Object Protocols

9.5 Appendables

9.6 Comparables

9.7 Membership Tests

9.10 Closeables

9.11 Serializables

9.11.1 Serialization and Deserialization

10 Higher-Order Control

10.2 Exceptions

10.3 Continuations

10.4 Context Parameters

10.5 Delayed Evaluation

11 Code as Data

11.1 Syntax Objects

11.2 Syntax Classes

11.3 Simple Expression Macros

12 String Formatting and Matching

12.1 String Formatting

12.2 Table Formatting

12.3 Regular Expressions

12.3.1 Regexp Patterns

12.3.2 Regexp Character Sets

12.3.3 Regexp Objects

12.3.4 Regexp Match Results

13 Input and Output

13.1.1 Port Objects

13.1.2 Input Ports

13.1.3 Output Ports

13.1.4 File/Stream Ports

13.1.6 Port Conversions

13.2 Encoding and Conversion

13.5 Shrubbery Input

13.6 Cryptographic Hashing

14 Operating System

14.1.1 Runtime Paths

14.2 Cross-Platform Paths

14.3 Filesystem

14.4 Environment Variables

14.5 Subprocesses

14.6 Networking

14.6.3 Port Numbers and Waiting Modes

14.7 System Information and Control

14.8 Date and Time

14.8.3 Date and Time Combined

14.8.4 Date and Time in a Time Zone

14.8.5 Date Formats and Utilities

14.9 Command Line Parsing

14.9.1 Command Line Parser Construction

14.9.2 Command Line Parser Parameters and Annotations

14.9.3 Command Line Parsing Classes

15 Threads and Concurrency

15.4 Synchronizable Events

16 Shutdown and Finalization

16.1 Custodians

16.3 Will Executors

17 Runtime System

17.1 Memory Management

17.2 Measuring Time and Space

17.3 Random Number Generation

17.4 Version Number Comparison

17.5 Module Collection Paths

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