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# Hoa\Zformat

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This library provides a new format called zFormat, used to express complex
parameters, for instance for classes.

[Learn more](https://central.hoa-project.net/Documentation/Library/Zformat).

## Installation

With [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/), to include this library into
your dependencies, you need to
require [`hoa/zformat`](https://packagist.org/packages/hoa/zformat):

```sh
$ composer require hoa/zformat '~1.0'
```

For more installation procedures, please read [the Source
page](https://hoa-project.net/Source.html).

## Testing

Before running the test suites, the development dependencies must be installed:

```sh
$ composer install
```

Then, to run all the test suites:

```sh
$ vendor/bin/hoa test:run
```

For more information, please read the [contributor
guide](https://hoa-project.net/Literature/Contributor/Guide.html).

## Quick usage

…

## Documentation

The
[hack book of `Hoa\Zformat`](https://central.hoa-project.net/Documentation/Library/Zformat)
contains detailed information about how to use this library and how it works.

To generate the documentation locally, execute the following commands:

```sh
$ composer require --dev hoa/devtools
$ vendor/bin/hoa devtools:documentation --open
```

More documentation can be found on the project's website:
[hoa-project.net](https://hoa-project.net/).

## Getting help

There are mainly two ways to get help:

  * On the [`#hoaproject`](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#hoaproject)
    IRC channel,
  * On the forum at [users.hoa-project.net](https://users.hoa-project.net).

## Contribution

Do you want to contribute? Thanks! A detailed [contributor
guide](https://hoa-project.net/Literature/Contributor/Guide.html) explains
everything you need to know.

## License

Hoa is under the New BSD License (BSD-3-Clause). Please, see
[`LICENSE`](https://hoa-project.net/LICENSE) for details.