Definition

RIDDL is a declarative language, in that it declares the definition of certain concrete concepts in a hierarchical fashion. The notion of a definition is abstract since there are many types of definitions, all described in this concepts section. Succinctly, a definition is anything that has a unique name that we call its identifier.

All definitions have some common attributes:

• loc: The location of the definition in its input file. (line & column)
• id: The name, or identifier, of the definition.
• briefly: A string to briefly describe the definition. These are used in the documentation output and the glossary.
• description: A block of Markdown that fully describes the definition. All the facilities provided by the
  hugo-geekdoc template for hugo are supported.

These attributes merely provide supplemental information about the definition but are not part of the definition.

The vital definitions share a set of attributes that, like the Common Attributes, are informational rather than definitional.