1 Metadata

Sasha Koshka edited this page 2022-08-30 05:57:36 +00:00

The metadata section contains optional semantic information such as the author of a file, and the license it is distributed under. It also contains information looked at by the compiler like other modules it requires. Keys are represented by name tokens, and values by string tokens. Each key/value pair should be on its own line, un-indented.

An example metadata section looks like this:

:arf
author "Sasha Koshka"
license "GPLv3"
require "io"

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