ZPL Reference

The information provided here should help anyone get started with ZPL (compiling and running a program). In addition, aspects of the ZPL programming language are discussed in depth. For an up-to-date introduction to ZPL, please refer to Chapter 2 of Brad Chamberlain's dissertation, one of our tutorials, or the comic book.

Getting Started

• How to compile a ZPL program
• How to run a ZPL program

Language Topics

• Important Recent Changes
  
  
• Input/Output
• Timing routines
• Strings
• Halt statement
• Referring to external types, values, etc.
• Complex numbers
• Wrap-@ operator
• Grid dimensions
• User-defined reductions