The core components of ContRap and the plugin libraries are available as an online documentaion.

Core API

Libraries API

Plugins

The following tutorial presents a detailed overview over the ContRap concepts, language, and programming.

• Basic concepts
• ContRap philosophy
• User- and Developer levels
• Function- and Class-wrapping
• Garbage collection
• Quick start
• The ContRap IDE
• Create a ContRap plugin library
• Add a source file to a library
• Export a function
• Export a class
• Write a plugin
• User level
• Symbolic and strict modes
• Built-in types (Number, Integer, Floating, String, List)
• Control flow structures (if, for, while)
• Variables and binding (local)
• Functions
• Function options
• Conditional calls (where, abort)
• Implicit conversion
• Operators
• Classes
• Logging messages and error handling (abort, error)
• Developer level
• Plugins
• Libraries
• Data type export
• Function export
• Plugin documentation
• Calling ContRap functions from C++
• Reference counting
• Controlling efficiency
• Appendix A: Operator table
• Appendix B: Keywords table
• Appendix C: Creating a new ContRap library from scratch
• Appendix D: Documentation tags for C++ export
• Appendix E: Smart pointer debugging