Symbols

Warning

Everything related to symbols is still subject to changes.

This is only a quick reference. There are some subtle nuances related to some symbols.

(a) Some symbols are used multiple times with different meanings in different contexts.

Punctuation:

Symbol	Description
;	End of statement
.	Navigation to contained sub item or data fragment
,	List element separator
{ ... }	Scope delimitation
( ... )	List of arguments or values
" ... "	Static string declaration
' ... '	Operator defined by the user

Declaration/Allocation and Assignment:

Symbol	Description
:	Declaration of a variable with the type defined explicitly by the programmer (a)
=	Assignment operator (a)
:=	Declaration and assignment with data type inferred by the compiler
::	Constant declaration and assignment of:
	* a value with data type inferred by the compiler
	* a reusable code block: procedure/function
	* a user defined type: struct/enum/...

Boolean/Logic/Comparison operators:

Symbol	Description
==	Is equal comparison (a)
!=	Is Not equal comparison (a)
!	Logic NOT operator
&&	Logic AND operator
||	Logic OR operator
>	Greater operator
>=	Greater or equal operator
<	Lesser operator
<=	Lesser or equal operator

Arithmetic operators:

Symbol	Description
+	Addition operator
+=	Addition and assignment operator
++	Self increment operator
-	Subtraction operator (a)
-=	Subtraction and assignment operator (a)
--	Self decrement operator
*	Multiplication operator (a)
*=	Multiplication and assignment operator
/	Floating point division operator
/=	Floating point division and assignment operator
^	Exponentiation operator
^=	Exponentiation and assignement operator
%	Modulus operator
%=	Modulus and assignment operator

Bitwise operators:

Symbol	Description
&	Bitwise AND operator
&=	Bitwise AND and assignment operator
|	Bitwise OR operator
|=	Bitwise OR and assignment operator
~	Bitwise Complement operator
~=	Bitwise Complement and assignment operator

Arrays:

Symbol	Description
[ N ]	Static Array of length N
[..]	Variable length array
..	Range operator

Memory operations:

Symbol	Description
*	Pointer type declaration (a)
*~	Relative pointer type declaration
<<	Pointer explicit de-referentiation

Compiler:

Symbol	Description
#	Compiler directive statement
@	Serialization decorator statement or compiler directive
$	Polymorphic Type declaration usually in function argument

Misc/uncategorized:

Symbol	Description
->	Function return type or types
:	Explicit rename of the iterator in for loops (a)
`	Backtick Declare an entity from an outer scope
<-	Access an entity from an outer scope
xx	Auto cast
---	Explicitly not initialized

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