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2    Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Joel de Guzman
3    Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Dan Marsden
4    Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Thomas Heller
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6    Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
7    file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
8===============================================================================/]
9
10[section Starter Kit]
11
12Most "quick starts" only get you a few blocks from where you are. From there,
13you are on your own. Yet, typically, you'd want to get to the next city. This
14starter kit shall be as minimal as possible, yet packed as much power as
15possible.
16
17So you are busy and always on the go. You do not wish to spend a lot of time
18studying the library. You wish to be spared the details for later when you need
19it. For now, all you need to do is to get up to speed as quickly as possible and
20start using the library. If this is the case, this is the right place to start.
21
22This section is by no means a thorough discourse of the library. For more
23information on Phoenix, please take some time to read the rest of the
24Documentation. Yet, if you just want to use the library quickly, now, this
25chapter will probably suffice. Rather than taking you to the details of the
26library, we shall try to provide you with annotated examples instead.
27Hopefully, this will get you into high gear quickly.
28
29[heading Functors everywhere]
30
31Phoenix is built on function objects (functors). The functor is the main
32building block. We compose functors to build more complex functors... to build
33more complex functors... and so on. Almost everything is a functor.
34
35[note Functors are so ubiquitous in Phoenix that, in the manual, the
36words /"functor"/ and /"function"/ are used interchangeably.]
37
38[/section Primitives]
39
40We start with some core functions that are called *primitives*. You can think of
41primitives (such as values, references and arguments) as atoms.
42
43Things start to get interesting when we start /composing/ primitives to form
44*expressions*. The expressions can, in turn, be composed to form even more complex
45expressions.
46
47[include starter_kit/values.qbk]
48[include starter_kit/references.qbk]
49[include starter_kit/arguments.qbk]
50
51[/endsect]
52
53[/section Composites]
54
55[include starter_kit/operator.qbk]
56[include starter_kit/statement.qbk]
57[include starter_kit/object.qbk]
58[include starter_kit/function.qbk]
59[include starter_kit/more.qbk]
60
61[/endsect]
62
63[endsect]
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