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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

Chapter 5: Types and Operators

Bosque supports a multiple type system that allows developers to have sufficient flexibility to develop their programs through nominal structured or combined types. To take advantage of the language, it is essential to become familiar with the different supported types and operators that Bosque provides.

In this chapter, we will explore each of the type systems, review the core types, and discover some special types and the main operators that Bosque offers us. For this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Bosque type system
  • Nominal type system
  • Structural type system
  • Typed strings
  • Operators

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to understand the Bosque type systems, as well as identify and use each operator available to process information from different types.