TADS 3 Overview

Table of Contents

Foreword

TADS 3 Library Articles from tads.org

Terminology: TADS and T3

Naming Conventions

Getting Started: A "Hello World" Sample Program

Memory Management: Garbage Collection and Finalization

Exceptions and Error Handling

Building Programs: Compiling and Linking

Stand-Alone Executables

Running Programs: The TADS 3 Interpreter

Source File Character Sets

Language Features

Preprocessor

Start-up Code: The Main Program Entrypoint

The Default Display Function

Enumerators

Expressions and Operators

Anonymous Functions

Object Definitions

Dynamic Object Creation

Statements (Differences from TADS 2)

Capturing Calls to Undefined Methods

Regular Expressions

Reflection

Exported Symbols

Intrinsic Support for Command Parsing

Tokenizing

Dictionaries

Grammars

Library

Pre-initialization

API Organization

Intrinsic Functions

The "t3vm" function set

The "tads-gen" function set

The "tads-io" function set

Intrinsic Classes

BigNumber

ByteArray

CharacterSet

Collection

Dictionary

File

GrammarProd

IntrinsicClass

Iterator

List

LookupTable

Object

RexPattern

String

StringComparator

TadsObject

Vector

WeakRefLookupTable

Output Formatter

Introduction to HTML TADS

Building a Character Mapping File

Translating Error Messages

TADS 3 Version History

Adv3 Library Version History