TAL Programmer's Guide

Operands

Using Expressions

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Keywords

Keywords have predefined meanings to the compiler when used as described in this

manual. Table 5-1 lists reserved keywords, which you cannot use as identifiers.

Table 5-1. Reserved Keywords

AND DO FORWARD MAIN RETURN TO

ASSERT DOWNTO GOTO NOT RSCAN UNSIGNED

BEGIN DROP IF OF SCAN UNTIL

BY ELSE INT OR STACK USE

CALL END INTERRUPT OTHERWISE STORE VARIABLE

CALLABLE ENTRY LABEL PRIV STRING WHILE

CASE EXTERNAL LAND PROC STRUCT XOR

CODE FIXED LITERAL REAL SUBPROC

DEFINE FOR LOR RESIDENT THEN

Table 5-2 lists nonreserved keywords, which you can use as identifiers anywhere

identifiers are allowed, except as noted under Restrictions.

Table 5-2. Nonreserved Keywords

Keyword Restrictions

BELOW

BIT_FILLER Do not use as an identifier within a structure.

BLOCK Do not use as an identifier in a source file that contains the NAME declaration.

BYTES Do not use as an identifier of a LITERAL or DEFINE.

COBOL

ELEMENTS Do not use as an identifier of a LITERAL or DEFINE.

EXT

EXTENSIBLE

FILLER Do not use as an identifier within a structure.

FORTRAN

LANGUAGE

NAME

PASCAL

PRIVATE Do not use as an identifier in a source file that contains the NAME declaration.

UNSPECIFIED

WORDS Do not use as an identifier of a LITERAL or DEFINE.