pTAL Reference Manual (H06.03+)

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HP pTAL Reference Manual
Glossary Index Examples Figures Tables
What’s New in This Manual xxxi
Manual Information xxxi
New and Changed Information xxxi
About This Manual xxxvii
Audience xxxvii
Additional Information xxxvii
Notation Conventions xli
1. Introduction to pTAL
pTAL and TAL Compatibility 1-1
EpTAL, pTAL, and TAL Compilers 1-2
pTAL Applications 1-3
pTAL Features 1-4
Procedures 1-4
Subprocedures 1-4
Private Data Area 1-4
Recursion 1-5
Parameters 1-5
Data Types
1-5
Data Grouping
1-5
Pointers 1-6
Data Operations 1-6
Bit Operations 1-6
Built-in Routines 1-6
Compiler Directives 1-6
Modular Programming 1-6
System Services 1-6
System Procedures 1-7
pTAL and the CRE 1-7