Dylan Library Reference

This reference describes the libraries provided with Open Dylan, either as part of the “opendylan” repository or included therein as submodules.

It also documents Dylan language extensions and the LID file format.

Extensions

• Dylan Language Extensions
  • Language differences
  • Function Definition
  • Extensions to the FOR iteration construct
  • Weak tables
  • Inlining adjectives for methods, constants, functions, and slots
  • Integers
  • object-with-elements
  • Macro System Extensions
  • Parser Expansions
  • Alternative Curry Syntax
• LID File Format
  • LID files
  • LID keyword statements
  • Open Dylan’s LID extensions
  • File naming conventions
  • Application example

Libraries

• The c-ffi Library
  • Overview
  • Notes on Linking
  • Tracing FFI Calls
  • Terminology
  • Basic options in C-FFI macros
  • Designator classes
  • Defining types
  • Functions
  • Allocating and deallocating C storage
  • Utility designator classes
• The collections Library
  • The bit-set Module
  • The bit-vector Module
  • The collectors Module
  • The plists Module
  • The set Module
  • The table-extensions Module
• The coloring-stream Library
  • Usage
  • The coloring-stream Module
• The command-line-parser Library
  • Quick Start
  • Reference
• The common-dylan Library
  • The byte-vector Module
  • The common-extensions Module
  • The machine-words Module
  • The simple-format Module
  • The simple-profiling Module
  • The simple-random Module
  • The simple-timers Module
  • The transcendentals Module
• The dylan Library
  • The finalization Module
  • The dylan-primitives Module
  • The threads Module
• The hash-algorithms Library
  • The hash-algorithms Module
• The io Library
  • The format Module
  • The format-out Module
  • The print and pprint Modules
  • The streams Module
  • The standard-io Module
• The logging Library
  • Overview
  • Quick Start
  • Errors
  • Log Levels
  • Logging Functions
  • Logs
  • Log Targets
  • Log Formatting
• The network Library
  • Overview
  • Utilities
  • Internet addresses
  • Sockets
  • Socket conditions
• The progress-stream Library
• The regular-expressions Library
  • Overview
  • Quick Start
  • Reference
• The sql Library
  • Implementation
  • Using the SQL-ODBC library in applications
  • Object-oriented languages and relational databases
  • Result-retrieval protocol
  • Processing results
  • Bridging the object-relational gap
  • Error handling
  • Examples used in this document
  • Connection protocol functions, methods, and macros
  • Connecting and disconnecting
  • The null value
  • Input indicators and output indicators
  • Record class
  • Result-set policy class
  • Result-set classes
  • Liaison functions
  • Coercion policies
  • Diagnostics
  • Database objects and integrity constraints
• The strings Library
  • The strings Module
  • Other Useful Functions
• The system Library
  • The date Module
  • The locators Module
  • The file-system Module
  • The operating-system Module
• The t-lists Library
  • The t-lists Module
• The Win32 API Libraries
  • Supported Win32 libraries
  • Content and organization of the Win32 API libraries
  • Naming and mapping conventions
  • Defining callback functions
  • Error messages
  • Handling Dylan conditions in a Win32 application
  • Dealing with the C function WinMain
  • Combining bit mask constants
  • Other minor details
  • Index of Win32 names excluded from the Dylan libraries

Indices and tables

• Index
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