Table of Contents

These are the different Wiki topics related to the Heron documentation.

Quick Start

1. Hello world - and other basic programs
2. Quick Reference

Basic Topics

1. Expressions
2. Control flow
3. Other statements
4. Primitives - built-in primitive types
5. Collections - Seq, Iterator, List, Tuple, and Range
6. Any - the Any variant type
7. Type casting
8. First class functions
9. Closures
10. Records
11. Tables
12. Metaprogramming
13. List operations - map, select, reduce, and accumulate.

User Defined Types

1. Classes
2. Interfaces
3. Enums
4. Modules

Design Principles and Philosphy

1. Design goals
2. Zen of Heron (guiding principles)

Miscellaneous Topics

1. No static data
2. Parallelism in Heron
3. The configuration file
4. Duck typing
5. Optional type annotations

Planned Features

For planned features see the issues labeled as enhancement.