Boron is an open source programming language created in 2009 by Karl Robillard.
| #1295on PLDB | 15Years Old |
Boron is a scripting language similar to REBOL. The interpreter is a C library which may be copied under the terms of the LGPLv3.
| Feature | Supported | Token | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Threads | ✓ | ||
| Strings | ✓ | " { } {{ }} | "Hello world"
{He said "That looks good!"} |
| Multiline Strings | ✓ | {{
Line 1
Line 2
}} |
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| MultiLine Comments | ✓ | /* */ | /* A comment */ |
| Print() Debugging | ✓ | print probe | |
| Lists | ✓ | my-list: [1 two 3.0 "four"] |
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| Line Comments | ✓ | ; | ; A comment |
| Homoiconicity | ✓ | ||
| Garbage Collection | ✓ | ||
| Exceptions | ✓ | catch [throw 22 print "You'll never see this."] if error? try [read %does_not_exist] [print "File not found"] |
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| Comments | ✓ | ||
| Disk Output | ✓ | write %helloworld.txt "Hello, world!^/" |
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| Shebang | ✓ | #!/usr/bin/env boron |