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Learn Bosque Programming

By : Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta
Book Image

Learn Bosque Programming

By: Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta

Overview of this book

Bosque is a new high-level programming language inspired by the impact of structured programming in the 1970s. It adopts the TypeScript syntax and ML semantics and is designed for writing code that is easy to reason about for humans and machines. With this book, you'll understand how Bosque supports high productivity and cloud-first development by removing sources of accidental complexity and introducing novel features. This short book covers all the language features that you need to know to work with Bosque programming. You'll learn about basic data types, variables, functions, operators, statements, and expressions in Bosque and become familiar with advanced features such as typed strings, bulk algebraic data operations, namespace declarations, and concept and entity declarations. This Bosque book provides a complete language reference for learning to program with Bosque and understanding the regularized programming paradigm. You'll also explore real-world examples that will help you to reinforce the knowledge you've acquired. Additionally, you'll discover more advanced topics such as the Bosque project structure and contributing to the project. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to configure the Bosque environment and build better and reliable software with this exciting new open-source language.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction
5
Section 2: The Bosque Language Overview
10
Section 3: Practicing Bosque
15
Section 4: Exploring Advanced Features

Learning about scoped access and invocations

Similar to the previous topic, this one will also not be of any surprise to anyone who has experience with other object-oriented programming languages. Most of the features presented here will probably look very familiar but there is one feature that is unique to Bosque – conjunction type scoped access and invocations.

We will quickly go through this topic while taking a closer look at the unique feature. Firstly, we will see how variable scoped access works, and then we will have a look at scoped invocations.

Understanding variable scoped access

Let's start with the most common thing, which is a local variable or parameter. As mentioned in the Understanding parameters handling in Bosque section, we access them using their name. So, if we have a function with a usersCount parameter, we can access it like this:

let approxRevenue = usersCount * 10;

Simple as that. The same is done with local variables – the...