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Part of Oot Details.

Read Oot first.

Details of Oot Syntax

Here we describe, in detail, the syntax of Oot.

(todo: some of this isn't just syntax)

General points regarding Oot syntax

Parsing occurs as a separate stage prior to the rest of Oot compilation/execution. There are scoped metaprogramming constructs that allow custom parsing of individual, clearly-marked strings, lines, or blocks within code, and there is a per-file 'source filter' preprocessing facility, but there are no metaprogramming constructs that can alter the behavior of Oot parsing in a non-local way. This guarantees that if you are reading Oot code outside the scope of the above-mentioned metaprogramming constructs, you can be assured that it parses in a standard way.

The precedence of operators is determined by which symbols they are composed of; although users can define custom binary operators, you never have to look up a function definition just to see how to source code will parse.

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