Reference

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Structure and Declarations

• Keywords
• Modules
• Packages
• Compilation units
• Types
• Type parameters
• Classes
• Interfaces
• objects
• Methods
• Attributes
• Annotations Ceylon 1.0

Statements

• break statements
• continue statements
• expression statements
• for statements
• if statements
• import statements
• return statements
• = (specification) statement
• switch statements
• throw statements
• try statements
• while statements

Expressions

• What is an expression
• Attribute Evaluation
• Attribute Assignment
• Callable References
• Class Instantiation
• Literals
• Metamodel References Ceylon 1.0
• Method Invocation
• Operator expressions
• this
• outer Milestone 3
• super
• Sequence Instantiation
• String Templates

Operators

• operator polymorphism
• ! (not)
• != (not equal)
• % (remainder)
• %= (remainder assign)
• & (Set intersection) Milestone 4
• && (and)
• &&= (and assign)
• &= (Set intersect assign) Milestone 4
• () (invoke)
• () (null-safe invoke)
• * (product)
• ** (power)
• *= (multiply assign)
• + (sum)
• + (unary plus)
• ++ (increment)
• += (add assign)
• - (difference)
• - (unary minus)
• -- (decrement)
• -= (subtract assign)
• -> (entry)
• . (member)
• .. (range)
• .= (apply)
• / (quotient)
• /= (divide assign)
• := (assignment)
• < (less than)
• <= (less than or equal)
• <=> (compare)
• [= (specify)] - doc coming soon at (operator/specify)
• == (equal)
• === (identical)
• > (greater than)
• >= (greater than or equal)
• ?[] (nullsafe-lookup)
• [] (lookup)
• []. (spread attribute)
• []. (spread invoke)
• [x..y] (span)
• [x...] (upper span)
• ^ (Set exclusive union) Milestone 4
• ^= (Set exclusive union assign) Milestone 4
• in (in)
• is (is)
• | (Set union) Milestone 4
• |= (Set union assign) Milestone 4
• || (or)
• ||= (or assign)
• {} (invoke)
• {} (null-safe invoke)
• ~ (Set complement) Milestone 4
• ~= (Set complement assign) Milestone 4

Literals

• Number literals
• Float literals
• String literals
• Character literals
• Single-quoted literals Ceylon 1.1 or later

Language module (ceylon.language)

The API documentation for ceylon.language.

Tools

• The Ceylon launcher, ceylon
• The Ceylon compiler, ceylonc
• The Ceylon module information tool, ceylonp Milestone 3
• The Ceylon documentation compiler, ceylond
• The Ceylon repository replicator, ceylonr Milestone 3
• The Ceylon source archive extractor, ceylonf Milestone 3
• The Ceylon Ant tasks

Interoperability

• 'Calling' Ceylon from Java
• 'Calling' Java from Ceylon
• Type mapping

Module repositories

• Module repositories
• [modules.ceylon-lang.org] - doc coming soon at (repository/modules.ceylon-lang.org) Milestone 3