Language Reference

This tour explains Anvil’s language constructs and their semantics, using small code examples.

• Lexical Conventions
  • Whitespace
  • Comments
  • Identifiers
• Literals
  • Numeric Literals
  • String Literals
• Values
  • Logic
  • Array
  • Struct
  • Enum
• Data Types
  • Data Type Expressions
  • Type Definitions
  • Struct Definitions
  • Enum Definitions
• Channels
  • Channel Classes
  • Channel Creation
  • Array of Channels
• Processes
  • Process Definition
  • Process Spawning
  • Threads
• Registers
  • Register Creation
  • Register Read
  • Register Write
• Expressions
  • Timing and Bindings
  • Conditionals
  • Arithmetic and Concatenation
  • Communication Expressions
  • Functions and Casts
  • Generate Expressions
  • Debug Statements