6.9.8 Symbols
The generated HUTN grammars use the following symbols in a consistent manner as
described in Table 6-1:
Table 6-1 Use of symbols in HUTN-generated languages
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Symbol name |
Use in HUTN |
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| {} |
Curly braces |
nesting of content |
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| () |
Round brackets |
grouping of parametric form |
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| () |
Round brackets |
grouping of lists |
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| [] |
Square brackets |
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| <> |
Angle brackets |
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| : |
colon |
introduces a data value |
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| = |
equals sign |
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| + |
plus |
sign of number |
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| - |
minus |
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| ’ |
single quote |
delimit literal strings |
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| ‘ |
back quote |
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| “ |
double quote |
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| \ |
backslash |
escape in literal strings |
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Table 6-1 Use of symbols in HUTN-generated languages
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| comma |
Separator in bracketed lists and parametric attributes. |
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| tilde |
boolean adjective negation |
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| semi-colon |
Optional terminator of attributes, references, and association links. |
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