Language Tour

Nonstraightforward is a JavaScript superset designed to be not so straightforward. Like other JavaScript supersets, Nonstraightforward compiles to JavaScript. This chapter assumes that you already have sufficient knowledge of JavaScript and its strange edge cases.

Contents

• Replacements
  • Booleans
  • The SYSROOT variable
• Control Flow
  • Conditional statement
  • Exceptions
  • Loops
  • Pattern matching
• Declarations
  • Classification declaration
  • Function declaration
  • Subroutine declaration
  • Variable declaration
• Modifiers
  • Visibility modifiers
  • Stability modifiers
  • Mutablility and RW-perms
• Modules
  • Importing JavaScript modules
  • Importing Nonstraightforward modules