D Tokens

[Derek Parnell]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:26:59 +0000 (UTC), Markus wrote:

> In article <e0fo44$1h57$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Jarrett Billingsley says...
>>
>>"Markus" <Markus_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
>>news:e0fj9n$1d41$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>> My question is this:
>>> How do you name those characters (delimiters, operators or somehow else)?
>>
>>I don't know Ada, but do you mean things like braces and semicolons ({, }, 
>>;)?  I wrote a C-style scripting language parser thing, and I called those 
>>"particles."  This is to parallel the use of particles in Japanese, which do 
>>not have any inherent meaning, but which simply define the grammatical 
>>structure of the sentence.  In the same way, braces and semicolons simply 
>>describe the structure of the program, and really only have meaning to the 
>>compiler and aren't directly represented in the final machine code which is 
>>generated. 
>>
>>
> I mean the following D symbols: / /= . .. ... & &= && | |= || - -= -- + += ++ <
> <= << <<= <> <>= > >= >>= >>>= >> >>> ! != !== !<> !<>= !< !<= !> !>= !~ ( ) [ ]
> { } ? , ; : $ = == === * *= % %= ^ ^= ~ ~= ~~ 
> go to  http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html  and look at 'Tokens'. 
> 
> As i understand, D Tokens are Identifiers, Sring Literals, Charachter Literals,
> Integer Literals, Float Literals, Keywords, and above-mentioned symbols. How do
> you call those symbols - Symbols, Operators, or Delimiters?
> 
> Look at 
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Lexical_elements
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Operators
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:C_plus_plus/Operators_Table
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Sharp_Programming/Operators
> 
> I think that there should be a standard name for it. What do you think?

Operators.

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31/03/2006 9:35:21 AM