Citron :: A Programming Language for the crazy and people that like functions

Release

A binary release (x86_64 ELF) is available (see Default Module Resolution for dynamic modules)

Build guide

minimum required libraries:

• libdl -- for dynamic loading of modules
• libbsd -- for utility functions (compile without forLinux defined to get rid of this dependency)
• libpcre -- for regular expressions
• libpthread -- for threading support
• libgc -- for Garbage Collection

building for debug:

• with boehm gc: WITH_BOEHMGC=1 make debug
• without: make debug

Since this is an alpha version, install is not allowed.

Basic language syntax:

All operations are done through sending and receiving messages between objects.

receiver message

receiver keyword: 'string' messages: 1, can be: 'chained', like so.

there are some examples in the examples directory.

running the interpreter is quite simple: ctr eval in the directory that the file eval is.

Default Module Resolution

A default module resolution path is assigned at build-time, which normally points to the data directory of the install; However, this can always be overridden by specifying an environment variable (CITRON_EXT_PATH by default).