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| author | Cliff Click <cliffc@acm.org> | 2026-10-03 14:03:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Cliff Click <cliffc@acm.org> | 2026-10-03 14:03:48 -0700 |
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Chapter renumber, and split ch 17
Renumber chapters 10a, 10b, 11, 12, 13, 14 -> 10, 11, 13, 12, [11,14].
Split ch 17 into a 17a and 17b; shuffle around im/mutable syntax to be consistent, and present it more slowly.
THe new immutable syntax is pushed through all later chapters
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diff --git a/chapter17a/docs/17-grammar.md b/chapter17a/docs/17-grammar.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..98aef06c --- /dev/null +++ b/chapter17a/docs/17-grammar.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# Chapter 17a grammar additions + +The expression and statement forms are those of Chapter 16. Declarations add +independent access and binding modifiers: + +```text +declaration = type binding ("," binding)* ";" +binding = ("!" | "~")? identifier ("=" expression)? +type = ("!" | "~")? name suffix* +suffix = "?" | "[]" | "[~]" +``` + +A prefix qualifier requires a struct reference. It qualifies the named base, +not enclosing arrays. Each bracket pair qualifies its own array layer. A binding +modifier applies only to the following name. See the README for defaults and +constructor initialization rules. `var`, `val`, increments, compound assignments, +conditional expressions, and `for` loops are introduced in Chapter 17b. |
