STIPPLE Documentation

The documentation for STIPPLE can be found in the documents below. The documentation is currently in shambles since being converted from Frame format to HTML format. A really careful edit pass is desparately needed.

Legal Issues: The copyright, liability, and ownership issues. You can skip this if it does not interest you.
Introduction: An introduction to the STiPPLE language.
Overview: An overview of STIPPLE is presented, including the basic data and type models.
Lexical Issues: The six kinds of STIPPLE lexemes are described -- white-space, comments, identifiers, constants, and punctuation (operators).
Notational Issues: The notation used to describe the language grammar are described.
Prelude Declarations: The prelude declarations are the ones preceeding any type and routine declarations.
Type Declarations: The type declarations must preceed any any routine declarations.
Routine and Object Declarations: The Routine and object declarations are described.
Statements: The STIPPLE statments are described.
Expressions: The STIPPLE expressions are described.
Rationale: The reasoning many of the STIPPLE language design choices.
Base library: The basic STIPPLE library of modules.