Simple Output

To Do

To John: write simple introduction, noting the need/non-need for imports. Give references to more advanced forms of output such as Slang templates.

println and print are the simplest methods for output:

   
   println("Hello World!") // print with a newline to stdout

   print("a")   // print without a newline to stdout
   print("b")
   print("c")
   println(" all done with this line!")

produces the following output

  Hello World!
  abc all done with this line!

Both methods can take an arbitrary number of arguments:

  println("Hey there:","I'm over here.","Wait, I moved over here.")

produces the following output:

  Hey there:I'm over here.Wait, I moved over here.

Analogous commands eprintln and eprint are used to print to stderr. cprintln and cprint generalize printing to stdout and stderr accepting a boolean as the first argument that determines if output will be sent to stdout (false) or stderr (true).

To Do

To Robby: should we address the basic string interpolation in this section?