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Scanning assembles characters into symbols which are the basic lexical units used in programming. There are several types of symbols including keywords, identifiers, integers, strings, and operator/delimiter symbols. Keywords are reserved words, identifiers are sequences of letters and numbers that are not keywords, integers are numeric sequences, and strings are character sequences in double quotes.

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Symbols

Scanning assembles characters into symbols which are the basic lexical units used in programming. There are several types of symbols including keywords, identifiers, integers, strings, and operator/delimiter symbols. Keywords are reserved words, identifiers are sequences of letters and numbers that are not keywords, integers are numeric sequences, and strings are character sequences in double quotes.

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Symbols

By: GAP
The process of reading, i.e., of assembling the input into expressions, has a subprocess,
called scanning, that assembles the characters into symbols. A symbol is a sequence of characters
that form a lexical unit. The set of symbols consists of keywords, identifiers, strings, integers, and
operator and delimiter symbols.
A keyword is a reserved word (see Keywords). An identifier is a sequence of letters, digits and
underscores (or other characters escaped by backslashes) that contains at least one non-digit and is
not a keyword (see Identifiers). An integer is a sequence of digits (see Integers), possibly prepended
by - and + sign characters. A string is a sequence of arbitrary characters enclosed in double quotes
(see Strings and Characters).
Operator and delimiter symbols are
+ - * / ^ ~ !.
= <> < <= > >= ![
:= . .. -> , ; !{
[ ] { } ( ) :

Reference: http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals//doc/htm/ref/CHAP004.htm#SECT002
Date:17-9-2008

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