Glimmer Syntax Basics

Glimmer's syntax is relatively small.

Expressions

Literals:

• numbers, e.g. 1 and 1.5
• strings, e.g. 'some text' and "some text"
• booleans: true and false
• null
• undefined

VariableReference:

• this
• Identifier (the usual identifier characters, plus -, ? and !)
• "@" Identifier

MemberAccess:

• VariableReference "." Identifier
• MemberAccess "." Identifier

(effectively a variable reference followed by "." and then N "." separated identifiers)

Call:

• "(" VariableReference Expression* NamedArg* ")"

NamedArg:

• Identifier "=" Expression