Program Structure and Code Conventions

This section introduces the typical structure of a ViviFire program, gives an easy ViviFire program (“Hello world”), and tells about ViviFire code conventions. Code conventions recommend some structural and visual elements as alternatives to others. code conventions can make your programs easier to read and to know what they do, and decrease maintenance time.

In this section

Structure of a ViviFire Program
Shows the elements in a ViviFire program.
Program Entry Point
Tells about the code that starts a program.
References and the Require Statement
Shows how to refer to objects in libraries.
Namespaces
Shows how namespaces make groups of objects in code.
Conventions for Names
Includes general instructions for names of procedures, constants, variables, arguments, and objects.
Code Conventions
Examines the rules that code samples use.
Conditional Compilation
Shows how to compile some code and ignore other code.
Special Characters in Code
Shows how and where to use characters that are not letters or numbers.
Comments in Code
Shows how to add text that tells what code does.
Keywords as Element Names
Shows how to use ViviFire keywords as names.
Self and Base
Shows different constructs to use to refer to elements of a program.
Language Limits
Tells how to decrease the effects of known limits in ViviFire code.