The Reference

The specification of Luce: every rule of the language and the reason for it. It is the document the compiler is held to; where the Tour and the Guide simplify, this is exact.

• 1. Principles
• 2. Source text
• 3. Literals
• 4. Types
• 5. Bindings
• 6. Expressions
• 7. Functions
• 8. Control flow
• 9. Values
• 10. Classes
• 11. Collections and text
• 12. Absence and failure
• 13. Interfaces and generics
• 14. Workers
• 15. Modules and packages
• 16. The Base boundary
• 17. Tooling
• 18. Deliberate exclusions
• 19. Grammar summary

The runtime states what the runtime promises: when objects are destroyed and in what order, how the cycle collector runs, how values are hashed.