☜	Basic Alphabet 1984 Version of ANSI Standard					☞

3. Static Syntax
3.1 Basic Alphabet

The routine, which is the object whose static syntax is being described in Section 3, is a string made up of the following 98 symbols.

• The 95 ASCII printable characters, including SP (space)
• The line-start symbol ls
• The end-of-line symbol eol
• The end-of-routine symbol eor

In program interchange, the following ASCII characters are used in place of ls, eol, and eor.

• ls: SP
  eol: CR LF
  eor: CR FF

When a program is stored internally, the standard does not specify what forms ls, eol, and eor take. They may, in fact, be expressed by means other than characters in the program. When a program is entered from a keyboard, the standard does not specify what operator procedures correspond to ls, eol, or eor.

The syntactic types graphic, alpha, and digit are defined here informally in order to save space.

graphic

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any of the class of 95 ASCII printable characters, including SP (space), represented by or SP.

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