4. Language

The syntax of Crowbar is designed to be similar to the syntax of C.

A Crowbar source file is UTF-8. Unless otherwise specified, a character in this specification refers to a Unicode scalar value. Crowbar source files can come in two varieties:

A Crowbar source file is read into memory in two phases: scanning (which converts text into an unstructured sequence of tokens) and parsing (which converts an unstructured sequence of tokens into a parse tree).

Syntax elements in this document are given in the form of parsing expression grammar rules.

• 4.1. Scanning
• 4.2. Source Files
• 4.3. Including Headers
• 4.4. Defining Types
• 4.5. Functions
• 4.6. Statements
• 4.7. Types
• 4.8. Expressions