Introduction
1.
Introduction
1.1.
What is Haxe?
1.2.
About this Document
1.3.
Authors and contributions
1.4.
License
1.5.
Hello World
1.6.
History
2.
Types
2.1.
Basic Types
2.2.
Numeric types
2.3.
Overflow
2.4.
Numeric Operators
2.5.
Bool
2.6.
Void
2.7.
Nullability
2.8.
Optional Arguments and Nullability
2.9.
Class Instance
2.10.
Class constructor
2.11.
Inheritance
2.12.
Interfaces
2.13.
Enum Instance
2.14.
Enum Constructor
2.15.
Using enums
2.16.
Anonymous Structure
2.17.
JSON for Structure Values
2.18.
Class Notation for Structure Types
2.19.
Optional Fields
2.20.
Impact on Performance
2.21.
Function Type
2.22.
Optional Arguments
2.23.
Default values
2.24.
Dynamic
2.25.
Dynamic with Type Parameter
2.26.
Implementing Dynamic
2.27.
Abstract
2.28.
Implicit Casts
2.29.
Operator Overloading
2.30.
Array Access
2.31.
Selective Functions
2.32.
Enum abstracts
2.33.
Forwarding abstract fields
2.34.
Core-type abstracts
2.35.
Monomorph
3.
Type System
3.1.
Typedef
3.2.
Extensions
3.3.
Type Parameters
3.4.
Constraints
3.5.
Generic
3.6.
Construction of generic type parameters
3.7.
Variance
3.8.
Unification
3.9.
Between Class/Interface
3.10.
Structural Subtyping
3.11.
Monomorphs
3.12.
Function Return
3.13.
Common Base Type
3.14.
Type Inference
3.15.
Top-down Inference
3.16.
Limitations
3.17.
Modules and Paths
3.18.
Module Sub-Types
3.19.
Import
3.20.
Resolution Order
4.
Class Fields
4.1.
Variable
4.2.
Property
4.3.
Common accessor identifier combinations
4.4.
Impact on the type system
4.5.
Rules for getter and setter
4.6.
Method
4.7.
Overriding Methods
4.8.
Effects of variance and access modifiers
4.9.
Access Modifier
4.10.
Visibility
4.11.
Inline
4.12.
Dynamic
4.13.
Override
4.14.
Static
5.
Expressions
5.1.
Blocks
5.2.
Constants
5.3.
Binary Operators
5.4.
Unary Operators
5.5.
Array Declaration
5.6.
Object Declaration
5.7.
Field Access
5.8.
Array Access
5.9.
Function Call
5.10.
var
5.11.
Local functions
5.12.
new
5.13.
for
5.14.
while
5.15.
do-while
5.16.
if
5.17.
switch
5.18.
try/catch
5.19.
return
5.20.
break
5.21.
continue
5.22.
throw
5.23.
cast
5.24.
unsafe cast
5.25.
safe cast
5.26.
type check
6.
Language Features
6.1.
Conditional Compilation
6.2.
Externs
6.3.
Static Extension
6.4.
In the Haxe Standard Library
6.5.
Pattern Matching
6.6.
Introduction
6.7.
Enum matching
6.8.
Variable capture
6.9.
Structure matching
6.10.
Array matching
6.11.
Or patterns
6.12.
Guards
6.13.
Match on multiple values
6.14.
Extractors
6.15.
Exhaustiveness checks
6.16.
Useless pattern checks
6.17.
String Interpolation
6.18.
Array Comprehension
6.19.
Iterators
6.20.
Function Bindings
6.21.
Metadata
6.22.
Access Control
6.23.
Inline constructors
7.
Compiler Usage
7.1.
Global Compiler Flags
8.
Compiler Features
8.1.
Built-in Compiler Metadata
8.2.
Dead Code Elimination
8.3.
Compiler Services
8.4.
Overview
8.5.
Field access completion
8.6.
Call argument completion
8.7.
Type path completion
8.8.
Usage completion
8.9.
Position completion
8.10.
Top-level completion
8.11.
Completion server
8.12.
Resources
8.13.
Embedding resources
8.14.
Retrieving text resources
8.15.
Retrieving binary resources
8.16.
Implementation details
8.17.
Runtime Type Information
8.18.
RTTI structure
8.19.
Static analyzer
9.
Macros
9.1.
Macro Context
9.2.
Arguments
9.3.
ExprOf
9.4.
Constant Expressions
9.5.
Rest Argument
9.6.
Reification
9.7.
Expression Reification
9.8.
Type Reification
9.9.
Class Reification
9.10.
Tools
9.11.
Type Building
9.12.
Enum building
9.13.
@:autoBuild
9.14.
@:genericBuild
9.15.
Limitations
9.16.
Macro-in-Macro
9.17.
Static extension
9.18.
Build Order
9.19.
Type Parameters
9.20.
Initialization macros
10.
Standard Library
10.1.
String
10.2.
Data Structures
10.3.
Array
10.4.
Vector
10.5.
List
10.6.
GenericStack
10.7.
Map
10.8.
Option
10.9.
Regular Expressions
10.10.
Matching
10.11.
Groups
10.12.
Replace
10.13.
Split
10.14.
Map
10.15.
Implementation Details
10.16.
Math
10.17.
Special Numbers
10.18.
Mathematical Errors
10.19.
Integer Math
10.20.
Extensions
10.21.
Lambda
10.22.
Template
10.23.
Reflection
10.24.
Serialization
10.25.
Serialization format
10.26.
Xml
10.27.
Getting started with Xml
10.28.
Parsing Xml
10.29.
Encoding Xml
10.30.
Json
10.31.
Parsing JSON
10.32.
Encoding JSON
10.33.
Implementation details
10.34.
Input/Output
10.35.
Sys/sys
10.36.
Remoting
10.37.
Remoting Connection
10.38.
Implementation details
10.39.
Unit testing
11.
Haxelib
11.1.
Using a Haxe library with the Haxe Compiler
11.2.
haxelib.json
11.3.
Versioning
11.4.
Dependencies
11.5.
extraParams.hxml
11.6.
Using Haxelib
12.
Target Details
12.1.
JavaScript
12.2.
Getting started with Haxe/JavaScript
12.3.
Using external JavaScript libraries
12.4.
Inject raw JavaScript
12.5.
JavaScript untyped functions
12.6.
Debugging JavaScript
12.7.
JavaScript target Metadata
12.8.
Exposing Haxe classes for JavaScript
12.9.
Loading extern classes using "require" function
12.10.
Flash
12.11.
Getting started with Haxe/Flash
12.12.
Embedding resources
12.13.
Using external Flash libraries
12.14.
Flash target Metadata
12.15.
Neko
12.16.
PHP
12.17.
Getting started with Haxe/PHP
12.18.
PHP untyped functions
12.19.
C++
12.20.
Using C++ Defines
12.21.
Using C++ Pointers
12.22.
Java
12.23.
C#
12.24.
Python
13.
Dictionary
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9.6 Limitations
9.6.1:
Macro-in-Macro
9.6.2:
Static extension
9.6.3:
Build Order
9.6.4:
Type Parameters