TAL Reference Manual

TAL Syntax Summary (Railroad Diagrams)

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STORE Statement

The STORE statement removes values from the register stack and stores them into

variables.

USE Statement

The USE statement reserves an index register for your use.

WHILE Statement

The WHILE statement is a pretest loop that repeatedly executes a statement while a

condition is true.

Standard Functions

The following syntax diagrams describe standard functions in alphabetic order.

$ABS Function

The $ABS function returns the absolute value of an expression. The returned value

has the same data type as the expression.

STORE variable

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USE identifier

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WHILE condition DO

statement

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$ABS ( expression )

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