The Pinax Manual

Learning and using the embeddable scripting language Pinax — Edition 0.21.1, October 2026

Contents

  1. About this book
  2. 1 The first program
  3. 2 Values and the stack
  4. 3 Words and signatures
  5. 4 Locals and flow
  6. 5 Strings
  7. 6 Collections
  8. 7 Records, pools, indexes
  9. 8 Failures and faults
  10. 9 Owned values and the region
  11. 10 Modules and data files
  12. 11 Text and binary formats
  13. 12 Patterns
  14. 13 Tasks
  15. 14 Embedding in a C program
  16. 15 Tools
  17. 16 Messages you will meet
  18. Index