TAL Reference Manual

About This Manual
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Manual Organization
For more information about TAL, first read the TAL Programmer’s Guide.
If you are familiar with TAL and the process environment, consult the TAL Reference
Manual for the syntax for declarations, statements, and directives and for information
about error messages.
For more information on writing a program that mixes TAL modules with modules
written in other languages, see Section 17, Mixed-Language Programming, in the TAL
Programmer’s Guide.
Manual Organization
This TAL Reference Manual covers these topics:
Table i. TAL Manual Set
Manual Description
TAL Programmer’s Guide Helps you get started in creating, structuring, compiling,
running and debugging programs. Describes how to
declare and access procedures and variables and how
the TAL compiler allocates storage for variables.
TAL Reference Manual Describes the syntax for declaring variables and
procedures and for specifying expressions, statements,
standard functions, and compiler directives; describes
error and warning messages.
TAL Reference Summary Presents a summary of syntax diagrams.
Section 1,
Introduction
summarizes the features of TAL
Section 2,
Language
Elements
summarizes language elements such as reserved words, identifiers,
constants, number bases, symbols, and operators
Section 3, Data
Representation
describes data types, storage units, character strings, numeric
constants, and constant lists
Section 4,
Expressions
describes the syntax for specifying arithmetic, conditional, and
special expressions
Section 5,
LITERALs and
DEFINEs
describes the syntax for LITERAL and DEFINE declarations
Section 6, Simple
Variables
describes the syntax for declaring simple variables
Section 7, Arrays
describes the syntax for declaring arrays and read-only arrays
Section 8,
Structures
describes the syntax for declaring structures and structure items
Section 9, Pointers
describes the syntax for declaring simple pointers and structure
pointers