Propeller Manual

Symbols – Spin Language Reference
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Table 2-16: Symbols (continued)
Symbol Purpose(s)
:
1) Return value separator: appears immediately before a symbolic return value on a PUB
or PRI declaration. See PUB on page 182, PRI on page 181, and RESULTT on page
194.
2) Object assignment: appears in an object reference declaration in an
OBJ block. See
OBJ, page 141.
3) Case statement separator: appears immediately after the match expressions in a CASE
structure. See CASE, page 59.
|
1) Local variable separator: appears immediately before a list of local variables on a PUB
or PRI declaration. See PUB, page 182 and PRI, page 181.
2) Bitwise OR: used in expressions. See Bitwise OR ‘|’, ‘|=’ on page 165.
\
Abort trap: appears immediately before a method call that could potentially abort. See
ABORT on page . T 47
,
List delimiter: used to separate items in lists. See LOOKUP, LOOKUPZ on page 138,
LOOKDOWN, LOOKDOWNZ on page 136, and the DAT section’s on
page .
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100
( )
Parameter list designators: used to surround method parameters. See PUB, page 182 and
PRI, page 181.
[ ]
Array index designators: used to surround indexes on variable arrays or main memory
references. See VAR, page 210; BYTE, page 51; WORD, page 227; and LONG, page 128.
'
Code comment designator: used to enter single-line code comments (non-compiled text) fo
r
code viewing purposes. See “Using the Propeller Tool” in the software’s Help file.
''
Document comment designator: used to enter single-line document comments (non-
compiled text) for documentation viewing purposes. See “Using the Propeller Tool” in the
software’s Help file.
{ }
In-line/multi-line code comment designators: used to enter multi-line code comments (non-
compiled text) for code viewing purposes.
{{ }}
In-line/multi-line document comment designators: used to enter multi-line document
comments (non-compiled text) for documentation viewing purposes. See “Using the
Propeller Tool” in the software’s Help file.