Hello World Example Project

This is the canonical first application. It displays a greeting on the standard output and then exits.

This application consists of the following parts:

hello-world-library.dylan

Library and module definitions.

hello.dylan

Program implementation.

README.html

This file.

Things to notice about this application:

• The library and module definitions are in the dylan-user module.

• The program implementation is in the newly defined hello-world module.

• Dylan programs don't have a standard entry point like the "main" function in C or Java. Instead, top-level forms are evaluated in order as the EXE/DLL is loaded. The last form in hello-world.dylan is a call to say-hello(), which invokes the say-hello method.