NAME

       Kaya - Top-level interpreter for the kaya language

SYNOPSIS

       kaya  FILE  [-L  DIRECTORY  [-L  ...]] [-libdir DIRECTORY [-libdir ...]] [-force] [-nochase] [-noprelude]
       [-nortchecks]  [-noopts]  [-htmldocs]  [-xmldocs]  [-static]  [-profile]  [-seedkey  STRING]   [-dumptac]
       [-dumpraw] [-dumptree] [-dumpsimpl] [-dumpeqns] [-dumpcg] [-dumpdeps] [-keepc] [-showgcc]

DESCRIPTION

       kaya  is  a top-level interpreter for the kaya language. It implements a read-eval-print loop, useful for
       quick evaluation and testing of functions.

OPTIONS

       kaya takes the same options as kayac(1) with the same meaning (although not all options  are  necessarily
       useful in this context.

DOCUMENTATION

       A set of interpreter commands can be obtained by typing :?  at the interpreter prompt.

EXAMPLE OF USAGE

        _
       | |____ _ _  _ __ _   Kaya top level, version 0.2.6
       | / / _` | || / _` |  http://kayalang.org/
       |_\_\__,_|\_, \__,_|  Type :? for help
                |__/

       Kaya> abs(-4)
       Returned (Int): 4
       Kaya> putStrLn("foo")
       foo
       Kaya> putStrLn(foo)
       (top level):1:Unknown name:foo
       Kaya> putStrLn(5)
       (top level):1:Type error in constant 5; has type Int, expected String
       Kaya> putStrLn(abs(5))
       (top level):1:Type error in application of 'abs'; has type Int(Int),
       expected String(t6)
       Kaya> :l stdlib/Strings.k
       Compiling module Strings
       Strings> lc("aBcDe")
       Returned (String): abcde
       Strings> :q

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       KAYA_LIBRARY_PATH
              A  list  of extra paths to search for kaya libraries. Paths are separated by ':' on Posix systems,
              and ';' on Windows.

OBTAINING

       The latest release  of  Kaya  can  be  obtained  from  <http://kayalang.org/download>.  You  can  receive
       announcements   of   new   versions   of   Kaya   by   subscribing  to  the  kaya-announce  mailing  list
       <http://lists.kayalang.org/lists/listinfo/kaya-announce>

       Development versions can be obtained using darcs(1) from <http://kayalang.org/darcs/>

BUGS

       Please report bugs found to <kaya@kayalang.org>

       kaya does not currently support all features of the Kaya language.

LICENSE

       kaya is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
       License (version 2 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

SEE ALSO

       kayac(1)

Kaya                                                July 2007                                            kaya(1)