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patatom

1977 Version of ANSI Standard

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patatom

See patatom for formal definition.

  1. Result Right Arrow A.
  2. Zero ("0") Right Arrow A.
  3. Result Right Arrow B.
  4. Result as "literal" Right Arrow B.
  5. Concatenate (B, Result) Right Arrow B.
  6. Place the 2-tuple (A,B) Right Arrow Result.
  7. If A > 0, do action 6.
    Otherwise, null string ("") Right Arrow Result.

Note: The Result returned by patatom is a 2-tuple, where the value of the first element is either zero or the value of intlit, and the value of the second element is either the Result from strlit as "literal", or a string of patcodes. If intlit returns zero, patatom returns the null string.

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