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6 Programming *************
· Data types void, bool, int, real, pair, triple, string
· Paths and guides Bezier curves
· Pens Colors, line types, line widths, font sizes
· Transforms Affine transforms
· Frames and pictures Canvases for immediate and deferred drawing
· Files Reading and writing your data
· Variable initializers Initialize your variables
· Structures Organize your data
· Operators Arithmetic and logical operators
· Implicit scaling Avoiding those ugly *s
· Functions Traditional and high-order functions
· Arrays Dynamic vectors
· Casts Implicit and explicit casts
· Import Importing external 'Asymptote' modules
· Static Where to allocate your variable?
Here is a short introductory example to the 'Asymptote' programming
language that highlights the similarity of its control structures with
those of C, C++, and Java:
// This is a comment.
// Declaration: Declare x to be a real variable;
real x;
// Assignment: Assign the real variable x the value 1.
x=1.0;
// Conditional: Test if x equals 1 or not.
if(x == 1.0) {
write("x equals 1.0");
} else {
write("x is not equal to 1.0");
}
// Loop: iterate 10 times
for(int i=0; i < 10; ++i) {
write(i);
}
'Asymptote' supports 'while', 'do', 'break', and 'continue'
statements just as in C/C++. It also supports the Java-style shorthand
for iterating over all elements of an array:
// Iterate over an array
int[] array={1,1,2,3,5};
for(int k : array) {
write(k);
}
In addition, it supports many features beyond the ones found in those
languages.