2 Lexical Elements

1. The text of a program consists of the texts of one or more compilations. The text of a compilation is a sequence of lexical elements, each composed of characters; the rules of composition are given in this section. Pragmas, which provide certain information for the compiler, are also described in this section.

• 2.1: Character Set
• 2.2: Lexical Elements, Separators, and Delimiters
• 2.3: Identifiers
• 2.4: Numeric Literals
• 2.5: Character Literals
• 2.6: String Literals
• 2.7: Comments
• 2.8: Pragmas
• 2.9: Reserved Words -- The Detailed Node Listing ---
• 2: Lexical Elements
• 2.1: Character Set
• 2.2: Lexical Elements, Separators, and Delimiters
• 2.3: Identifiers
• 2.4: Numeric Literals
• 2.4.1: Decimal Literals
• 2.4.2: Based Literals
• 2.5: Character Literals
• 2.6: String Literals
• 2.7: Comments
• 2.8: Pragmas
• 2.9: Reserved Words

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