Welcome to the boo user guide.

Contents

• Using Boo
  • Download boo
  • Running boo scripts
  • Compiling boo programs
  • How To Edit boo scripts
  • You can also use SharpDevelop to edit, run and compile boo programs with the boo add-in.
  • How To Build boo using nant

• Tutorials, including:
  • Hello Boo - a beginner tutorial
  • Advanced Tutorial, Learning Boo Kung-Fu
  • Sample GTK-SHARP application.
  • Differences with Python
  • Differences with C#
  • How to expose Boo as a scripting language in C# or Boo itself.
  • A basic guide to unit tests in Boo.

• Basic Features of Boo
  • Structure of a Boo Script
  • Import
  • Comments
  • Builtin Functions Summary

• Using .NET's Standard Class Library
  • General .NET Help
  • String Operations
  • Working With Files
  • Regular Expressions
  • XML Serialization

• Procedural Programming
  • Functions
  • Loops
  • Exception Handling
  • Closures
  • Generators

• Types and Structures
  • Data types
    • Type Inference
    • Casting Types
    • Duck Typing
    • Callable Types and Events
    • User-defined value types aka structs
    • Builtin Literals
  • Lists And Arrays
  • Hashtables
  • Slicing
  • [Modules]

• Object-oriented Features
  • Classes
  • Fields And Properties
  • Interfaces
  • Operator overloading
  • Enums

• Advanced Features
  • Macros (for developers, see also Syntactic Macros)
  • Extensible Compiler Architecture