No side effects, no surprises.

  1. Welcome
    1. What is the V language?
    2. What problem does this solve?
    3. “Working knowledge” is a critical dependency
    4. System documentation through executable rulebooks
    5. Usage scenarios
  2. Traits
    1. No side effects
    2. Declarative statements
    3. Objects
    4. Syntactic rules
    5. Sample
  3. Interpreter
    1. Language vs. Interpreter
    2. Rulebooks
    3. VLI Architecture
    4. Processing flow
    5. Object scope
    6. Object composer
    7. Dependency tree
    8. Resource evaluator
    9. Variable substitution
    10. Rule validator
    11. Trip-point emitter
  4. Installation
    1. Prerequisites
    2. Download
    3. Setup
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Objects

V processes objects that are placed in one or more source files. These objects are defined using a formal grammar.

Two types of objects can be defined with this grammar: those that describe host resources and those that express rules to be validated.

Resource objects define the parts of the computer: CPU, memory, filesystems, configuration settings, logs, network interfaces, I/O, traffic, software packages, etc.

Validation objects define rules that are to be checked. Is there adequate free disk space? Is there any suspicious activity in the logs? Are URLs accessible from the outside? Are configuration settings correct?