Operators and Punctuation Symbols



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Operators and Punctuation Symbols

A number of tokens are used as operators and punctuation symbols. The following table lists all of the operators and punctuation of Theta. Many of these tokens are used as a shorthand for various method invocations (7.11). For each single-character token, the table gives its hexadecimal ASCII code. (The notation "b_c" is the Theta notation for integer constant c given in base b (B.4).)

[modtabbing172]

[modtabbing179]

The following ``printing'' ASCII characters are not used in the language:

[modtabbing184]

[modtabbing189]

The ASCII character "comments (2.2.3).


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