Language Reference

This section focuses exclusively on the syntax and language constructs of Papyrus. This is not an introduction to the language.

Papyrus doesn't have a formal description like Rust, C++ or Python. Information is scattered throughout various sites, as seen in Additional Resources, and the main goal of this section is to unify all of it and provide a clean definition of the language.

How to read this reference

This reference was heavily inspired by the Rust Reference and copies some of its conventions.

• Warnings that show unsound behavior in the language or possibly confusing interactions of language features are in a special warning box.

  Warning: This is bad!

• Notation for grammar and lexical structures can be found in the Notation page.