The Tunes HLL Syntax

Language syntax is a matter of conventions. No one expressed any preference yet, and existing languages of interest are many, each with its own completely different syntax.
I guess we'll have to define the HLL as multiple extensions to existing languages, then refine it to obtain cleaner things. All this is pure draft.
So which some existing syntax to start with: BETA ? SELF ? CECIL ? Dylan ? LISP ? Haskell ? CAML ? SML ? C ? Perl ? Python ? Icon ? Oberon ? FORTH ? Esperanto ? Latin ? French ? English ?


General concepts

See the Semantics...


Standard Basic constructors



Standard Library of language extensions

That's worth a whole subproject...


Syntactic Difficulties


To Do on this page

  • Make first proposals.
  • Allow meaningful indentation on any syntax
  • Think about how to embed syntaxes in each other
  • Settle full HLL syntax.
  • Be faithful to the semantics.
  • Wait for feedback, as usual.


  • See the Tunes HLL Semantics.
  • Back to the Tunes HLL Subproject.


    Page Maintainer:
    Faré -- rideau@clipper.ens.fr