Vanilla Snobol4 Reference Manual
by Mark B. Emmer <
marke@snobol4.com
>
Copyright © 1985, 1988 Catspaw, Inc.
HTML markup by
John English
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1
Language Background
Chapter 2
Running a SNOBOL4 Program
2.1
Basic Command Line Format
2.2
Providing Your Own Parameters
2.3
Command Line Examples
Chapter 3
Statements
3.1
Comment Statements
3.2
Control Statements
3.3
Program Statements
3.4
Continuation Statements
3.5
Multiple Statements
3.6
The END Statement
Chapter 4
Operators
4.1
Unary Operators
4.2
Binary Operators
Chapter 5
Keywords
5.1
Protected Keywords
5.2
Unprotected Keywords
5.3
Special Names
Chapter 6
Data Types and Conversion
6.1
Data Type Names
6.2
Data Type Conversion
Chapter 7
Patterns and Pattern Functions
7.1
Primitive Patterns
7.2
Primitive Pattern Functions
Chapter 8
Built-In Functions
Chapter 9
System Messages
9.1
Initial Messages
9.2
Termination Messages
9.3
Compilation Messages
9.4
Execution Error Messages
9.5
Execution Trace Messages