Cicada Help

• C implementation
• Putting the C in Cicada
• Writing and debugging a Cicada wrapper
• The Anagrambler
• Rules for embedding C/C++ code
  • C function declaration
  • Cicada’s userfn source files
  • A minimal wrapper

• Building and running Cicada
• Basic Cicada syntax
• Expressions
• Variables
  • Primitive variables and constants
  • Composite variables
  • Array variables
  • Resizing arrays (and composite variables)
  • This and that
  • Aliases
  • The void
• Other define and equate operators
• Loops and if blocks
  • if
  • while do and loop until
  • for
  • backfor
  • break
• Sets
• Functions
  • Defining functions (properly)
  • Function arguments
  • Code substitution
  • Search Paths
• Classes and Inheritance
  • Classes
  • Inheritance

• cicada.c
• Cicada bytecode
  • define flags
  • Adapters
• Custom-compiling within a script

• Operators and reserved words
• Bytecode operators
  • Define operator flags
• Cicada built-in functions
• Functions define in Cicada scripts
  • start.cicada
  • user.cicada
• Linked list routines for handling Cicada strings in C
• Errors

Last update: May 8, 2024