DCFile Language Specification
Warning: This page is a work in progress and only describes comments in DCFiles. Totally useful right?
This is a reference manual for the DCFile distributed class description format.
It can and should be used as a reference to help understand the features and
concepts of the .dc file format. This reference is not arranged as a linear
tutorial, but rather as an overview of all features and concepts in DCFiles.
The .dc file format is intended to describe the objects that take part in
network and interprocess communication within a larger application.
Basic Lexical Elements
A .dc will often look fairly similar to a C++ header file that defines the
classes, structures, and methods of an application. The syntax and grammar of
the language are both very similar.
Like C/C++/Java, DCFiles use semicolons ; to separate declarations onto their
own logical lines. Being an interface description language, a .dc file does not
have any statements, though certain declarations accept expressions -- primarily
to declare default values. Similarily, when defining a class or data-structure,
curly-braces { ... } are used to delineate blocks.
Comments
Comments in a .dc file are again in the style of C/C++/Java.
A // can be used to comment out the remainder of a line.
// ie. a typical single-line comment
and the /* ... */ recipe can be used for block-comments.
/*
* This is an example of a multi-line comment.
*
Note: the asterisk on each line is a stylistic choice in comments, not required.
*/
Primitive Value Types
TODO