Spicy provides a domain-specific language that consists of two main types of constructs: parsing elements that capture the layout of an input format; along with more standard constructs of typical imperative scripting languages, such as modules, types, declarations, expressions, etc.. While the previous section <parsing> focuses on the former, we summarize the more "traditional" parts of Spicy's language in the following.
We assume some familiarity with other scripting languages. Generally, where not otherwise stated, think of Spicy as a "C-style scripting language" in terms of syntax & semantics, with corresponding rules for, e.g., block structure ({ ... }), operator precedence, identifier naming, etc.. If you are familiar with Zeek's scripting language in particular, you should be able to get up to speed with Spicy pretty quickly.
identifiers modules functions variables types statements packing error-handling conditional appendix