Cone Language Reference

Method Definition#

• Operator Methods
• Initializers and Finalizers
• Delegated Inheritance and Enrichment

Move Types and Semantics#

Borrowed References#

• Function References
• Static Permissions
• Lifetime Annotations

Region-Managed References#

• Owning References
• Custom Allocators
• Region Strategies
• Lock Permissions
• Weak References

Collection Types#

• Array References and Slices

Traits#

• Trait-based Variants
• Virtual References
• Closure References

Type Management#

• Conversion and Coercion
• Alias

Generics#

• Macros

Concurrency#

• Thread Communications
• Actors
• Awaiting a Reply
• I/O and Concurrency
• GPU Compute

Modules and Namespaces#

• import and extern

Metaprogramming#

Safety Considerations#

• Trust
• Raw Pointers
• Intrinsics

Syntax#

• Lexical Elements

  literals, identifiers, operators, comments, statement and block inference.

• Extended BNF
• Syntax Railroad Diagrams

  drawn from an earlier grammar; the Extended BNF is the current one.

The Standard Library#

• Files, Folders, Paths, Environment and Processes
• Time
• HTTP, TLS and URLs
• Testing