TAL Reference Summary

Notation Conventions
TAL Reference Summary
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Spacing Where no space is allowed, the notation ns appears in the railroad diagram. Here is an
example of a diagram in which spaces are not allowed:
.
right-bit
< >
:
left-bit
016
int-expression
ns ns ns
ns nsns
You can prefix identifiers of standard indirect variables with the standard indirection
symbol (.) with no intervening space.
In all other cases, if no separator—such as a comma, semicolon, or parenthesis—is
shown, separate syntactic items with at least one space.
Case Conventions Case conventions apply to keywords, variable items (information you supply), and
identifiers. These terms appear in uppercase or lowercase as follows:
Term Context Case Example
Keywords In text and in railroad diagrams Uppercase RETURN
Variable items In railroad diagrams Lowercase file-name
Variable items In text Lowercase italics file-name
Identifiers In examples Lowercase INT total;
Identifiers In text Uppercase TOTAL