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The Adamant Programming Language Reference

Note: This is the new version of the reference. Sections are being moved from the old version to the new version. If something is missing, it may be documented in the old version.

1. Introduction
2. Lexical Structure
   • Packages
   • Grammars
   • Lexical Analysis
   • Newlines
   • Whitespace
   • Comments
   • Tokens
   • Identifiers
   • Keywords
   • Reserved Words
   • Literals
   • Operators and Punctuators
3. Basic Concepts
   • Syntactic Analysis
   • Declarations
   • Member Access
   • Signatures and Overloading
   • Scopes
   • Execution Order
4. Types
   • Empty Types
   • Struct Types
   • Simple Types
   • Tuple Types
   • Class Value Types
   • Pointer Types
   • Reference Types
   • Type Parameters
   • Optional Types
   • Variable Reference Types
   • Type Expressions
   • Generic Types
5. Conversions
6. Expressions
   • Expression Blocks
   • Choice Expressions
   • Loop Expressions
   • Operators
     • Logical Operators
   • Bitwise Operations
   • Boolean Expression
   • Interpolated Strings
7. Statements
8. Namespaces
9. Functions
10. Classes
    • Declarations
    • Members
    • Fields
    • Constructors
    • Destructors
    • Methods
    • Properties
    • Operator Overloading
11. Structs
    • Struct Initializers
    • Struct Constructors
12. Traits
13. Enumerations
    • Enumeration Structs
    • Enumeration Classes
14. Generics
15. Exceptions
16. Attributes
17. Patterns
18. Unsafe Code
    • Pointers
19. External Declarations
20. Documentation Comments
21. Standard Library
    • Localization
    • Global Namespace
    • system Namespace
    • system.collections Namespace
    • system.collections.specialized Namespace
    • system.io Namespace
    • system.math Namespace
    • system.memory Namespace
    • system.text Namespace
22. Conventions
23. Planned Features
    • Global and Package Qualifiers
    • Additional Types
    • Aliases
    • Additional Expressions
    • Operator Features
    • Compile-time Function Execution
    • Language-Oriented Programming

Appendices:

• Ideas
• Glossary
• Implementer's Notes
• Influences
• Syntax Reference