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TMT Pascal Language Description
Pascal Language Structure

Tokens and Identifiers

Contiguous characters in a source file, not including the space character (32), are called tokens. Tokens are separated by any number of spaces and control characters (in the range of 0 to 32 decimal). For instance in the following segment,
  Writeln('Hello, World!');
there are five tokens: the identifier Writeln, left and right parentheses, the semicolon and the string 'Hello, World!'. Programs are sequences of tokens that tell the compiler what code to generate.

There are several different types of tokens; for instance, identifiers, reserved words, operators, and so on. Each type of token is explained further ahead in this manual.

Identifiers are tokens that have a special meaning in TMT Pascal. Identifiers begin with a letter (A-Z or a-z) or underscore, and may contain letters, underscores, and digits (0-9). The maximum length of an identifier is 255 characters, however only the first 63 characters are significant. TMT Pascal is not case sensitive, therefore the identifiers WriteLn, writeln, and WRITELN are all identical. Reserved words, procedure names, and variables, are examples of identifiers.


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