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From: Eugen Wissner <belka@caraus.de>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 23:07:50 +0200
Subject: Document operator and delimiters

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 \section{Strings and characters}
 
+Single \textit{characters} are enclosed in single quotation marks
+(\textquotesingle).\@ \textit{Strings} are sequences of characters enclosed in
+double quotation marks (\textquotedbl). The number of characters in a string is
+called the \textit{the length} of the string.
+
+\begin{grammar}
+<escaped-character> = `\\' \\
+	(`n' | `a' | `b' | `t' | `f' | `r' | `v' | `\\' | `\textquotesingle' | `\textquotedbl' | `0').
+
+<hex-character> = `\\x' <hex-digit> \{<hex-digit>\}.
+
+<character> = <printable-character> | <escaped-character> | <hex-character>.
+
+<character-literal> = `\textquotesingle' <character> `\textquotesingle'.
+
+<string-literal> = `\textquotedbl' \{<character>\} `\textquotedbl'.
+\end{grammar}
+
+Alternatively, a single character may be represented by a
+\textit{escape sequence} (see~\ref{table:escape}), a character combination
+beginning with a backslash (\textbackslash).
+
+\begin{table}[ht]
+\centering
+\begin{tabular}{r l}
+	\textbf{Sequence} & \textbf{Meaning} \\
+	\toprule
+	\verb|\n| & Newline \\
+	\midrule
+	\verb|\a| & Bell \\
+	\midrule
+	\verb|\b| & Backspace \\
+	\midrule
+	\verb|\t| & Horizontal tab \\
+	\midrule
+	\verb|\f| & Form feed \\
+	\midrule
+	\verb|\r| & Carriage return \\
+	\midrule
+	\verb|\v| & Vertical tab \\
+	\midrule
+	\verb|\\| & Backslash \\
+	\midrule
+	\verb|\'| & Single quote \\
+	\midrule
+	\verb|\"| & Double quote \\
+	\midrule
+	\verb|\0| & Null character \\
+	\midrule
+	\verb|\xh…| & Arbitrary hexadecimal value, where \verb|n| is a hexadecimal digit \\
+	\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\caption{Escape sequences}\label{table:escape}
+\end{table}
+
+Examples:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+		\item \verb|"String"|
+		\item \verb|'c'|
+		\item \verb|'\''|
+		\item \verb|"\"multi\nline\nquoted\nstring\""|
+\end{itemize}
+
 \section{Operators and delimiters}
 
+\textit{Operators} and \textit{delimiters} are the special characters, character
+pairs, or reserved words listed below. These reserved words consist exclusively
+of letters and cannot be used in the role of identifiers.
+
+\begin{itemize}
+	\item{}:=
+	\item $@\quad\hat{}\quad\sim$
+	\item $.\quad,\quad;\quad:\quad|$
+	\item $<\quad>\quad>=\quad<=\quad<>\quad=$
+	\item $+\quad-\quad*\quad/$
+	\item $or\quad{}xor\quad\&$
+	\item (\ and\ )
+	\item \lbrack{} and \rbrack{}
+	\item \{ and \}
+	\item Pointer
+	\item module
+	\item import
+	\item type
+	\item const
+	\item var
+	\item begin
+	\item end
+	\item proc
+	\item record
+	\item while
+	\item do
+	\item case
+	\item of
+	\item if
+	\item then
+	\item elsif
+	\item else
+	\item cast
+	\item return
+	\item true
+	\item false
+	\item nil
+\end{itemize}
+
 \section{Comments}
 
 \textit{Comments} may be inserted between any two tokens in a program. They
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