Oli language’s specification and reference

Oli is a minimal declarative language, focused on simplicity, elegancy and with built-in rich features. It is a communitity-driven project based on an open specification

This is the initial Oli language draft reference and specification documentation. It aims to cover all the technical details of the language in order to be useful for implementation and for language features consulting

Project stage

Oli is still a work in progress precarious beta project. Please, consider this before take it as a serious stuff

Document stage

This documentation is a work in progress and should be considered unfinished as the language features are still unclosed and under open debating process. Anyone can join to the discussion and help improving Oli

Table of Contents

• Overview
  • About
  • Rationale
  • Design goals
  • Real use cases
  • Features
  • Upcoming features
• Specification
  • Introduction
    • About this document
      • Versioning
      • Syntax examples
    • File extension
    • MIME Type
    • Character encoding
  • Basics Concepts
    • Document
    • Linked Data
    • Scopes
    • Mutability
  • Types
    • Boolean
    • Number
    • String
      • Quoted
      • Unquoted
      • Escape sequence
    • Nil
    • List
    • Block
  • Operators
    • Unary Operators
      • Anchor
      • Reference
      • Logical Not
      • Pipe
      • Dash
      • Assignment Not
    • Binary Operators
      • Assignment
      • Equal
      • Relational
      • Relational Raw
      • Assignment Fold
      • Assignment Unfold
      • Extend
      • Merge
  • Tokens
    • End
    • Comma
  • Expressions
    • Comments
    • Identifier
    • String Interpolation
  • Statements
    • Value Statement
    • Variable Statement
    • Block Statement
  • Grammar
    • Reserved Keywords
    • Grammar Ambiguities