Gazprea

Gazprea is derived from a language originally designed at the IBM Hardware Acceleration Laboratory in Markham, ON.

Language Specification

• 1. Keywords
• 2. Identifiers
• 3. Namespace
• 4. Comments
• 5. Declarations
  • 5.1. Special cases
• 6. Type Qualifiers
  • 6.1. Const
  • 6.2. Var
  • 6.3. Type Inference Using Qualifiers
• 7. Types
  • 7.1. Boolean
    • 7.1.1. Declaration
    • 7.1.2. Null
    • 7.1.3. Identity
    • 7.1.4. Literals
    • 7.1.5. Operations
    • 7.1.6. Type Casting and Type Promotion
  • 7.2. Character
    • 7.2.1. Declaration
    • 7.2.2. Null
    • 7.2.3. Identity
    • 7.2.4. Literals and Escape Sequences
    • 7.2.5. Operations
    • 7.2.6. Type Casting and Type Promotion
  • 7.3. Integer
    • 7.3.1. Declaration
    • 7.3.2. Null
    • 7.3.3. Identity
    • 7.3.4. Literals
    • 7.3.5. Operations
    • 7.3.6. Type Casting and Type Promotion
  • 7.4. Real
    • 7.4.1. Declaration
    • 7.4.2. null
    • 7.4.3. identity
    • 7.4.4. Literals
    • 7.4.5. Operations
    • 7.4.6. Type Casting and Type Promotion
  • 7.5. Tuple
    • 7.5.1. Declaration
    • 7.5.2. Access
    • 7.5.3. Null
    • 7.5.4. Identity
    • 7.5.5. Literals
    • 7.5.6. Operations
    • 7.5.7. Type Casting and Type Promotion
  • 7.6. Vectors
    • 7.6.1. Declaration
    • 7.6.2. Null
    • 7.6.3. Identity
    • 7.6.4. Construction
    • 7.6.5. Operations
    • 7.6.6. Type Casting and Type Promotion
  • 7.7. String
    • 7.7.1. Declaration
    • 7.7.2. Null
    • 7.7.3. Identity
    • 7.7.4. Literals
    • 7.7.5. Operations
    • 7.7.6. Type Casting and Type Promotion
  • 7.8. Matrix
    • 7.8.1. Declaration
    • 7.8.2. Null
    • 7.8.3. Identity
    • 7.8.4. Construction
    • 7.8.5. Operations
    • 7.8.6. Type Casting and Type Promotion
• 8. Type Inference
• 9. Type Casting
  • 9.1. Scalar to Scalar
  • 9.2. Scalar to Vector/Matrix
  • 9.3. Vector to Vector
  • 9.4. Matrix to Matrix
  • 9.5. Tuple to Tuple
  • 9.6. Null and Identity
• 10. Type Promotion
  • 10.1. Scalars
  • 10.2. Scalar to Vector or Matrix
  • 10.3. Tuple to Tuple
  • 10.4. Character Vector to/from String
• 11. Typedef
• 12. Streams
  • 12.1. Output Stream
    • 12.1.1. Output Format
    • 12.1.2. Null and Identity
  • 12.2. Input Stream
    • 12.2.1. Input Format
    • 12.2.2. Error Handling
• 13. Expressions
  • 13.1. Table of Operator precedence
  • 13.2. Generators
  • 13.3. Filters
  • 13.4. Domain Expressions
• 14. Statements
  • 14.1. Assignment Statements
  • 14.2. Block Statements
  • 14.3. If/Else Statements
  • 14.4. Loop
    • 14.4.1. Infinite Loop
    • 14.4.2. Predicated Loop
    • 14.4.3. Iterator Loop
  • 14.5. Break
  • 14.6. Continue
  • 14.7. Return
  • 14.8. Stream Statements
• 15. Functions
  • 15.1. Syntax
  • 15.2. Forward Declaration
  • 15.3. Vector and Matrix Parameters and Returns
• 16. Procedures
  • 16.1. Syntax
  • 16.2. Forward Declaration
  • 16.3. Main
  • 16.4. Aliasing
  • 16.5. Vector and Matrix Parameters and Returns
• 17. Globals
• 18. Built In Functions
  • 18.1. Length
  • 18.2. Rows and Columns
  • 18.3. Reverse
  • 18.4. Format
  • 18.5. Stream State

Implementation

• Backend
  • Memory Management
  • Runtime Libraries
• Compiler Implementation — Part 1
• Compiler Implementation — Part 2
• Errors
  • Compile-time Errors
  • Run-time Errors
  • Compile-time vs Run-time Size Errors
  • How to Write an Error Test Case