Spla is a object oriented language. It is started with a Class. A class name should be start with Upper case and class name and file name should be same. In Spla $ keyword is indicating Class.
~~Starting of class~~ $ClassName: #methodname< parameters > returnType: ~~method_docstring~~ method_suite; <- [expression];
The following method takes a string as input parameter and prints it on standard screen.
$Student: #printme< str strvar > int: ~~This prints a passed string into this method~~ << strvar; <- 0;