Classes and Objects

A class is a type definition intended to be used for instances or objects. It contains a basic definitional type for its state and a number of methods

Syntactically, a class requires the following elements:

1. class keyword

2. Type name, beginning with a capital letter

Like a function, a method defines a mapping from an input value to an output value. However, it does not begin with a func keyword.

// Add a value.
a(b:@) -> @ {
  +(b)
};

a(23)

Since a method only occurs within a class context and is delimited by ; “mic”, there is no syntactic ambiguity in defining them.

Syntactically, a method requires the following elements:

1. Method name (all lower case)

2. In parentheses, one or more arguments (the state)

3. In braces, code block of body

   1. A number of methods

While a terminating ; “mic” is not required, a class is very frequently introduced using a compose statement which requires a ; “mic” to end its context definition.

Methods in class definitions are similar to functions, but must occur inside a class code block and do not have a prefatory func keyw