Notational Conventions
This documentation uses the following conventions:
THIS TYPE
| Indicates statements, data types,
directives, and other language keywords. Examples of statement keywords are
WRITE, INTEGER, DO, and OPEN. |
this type | Indicates command-line or option
arguments , new terms, or emphasized text. Most new terms
are defined in the Glossary .
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This type | Indicates a code example.
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This
type | Indicates what you type as input.
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This type | Indicates menu names, menu items, button
names, dialog window names, and other user-interface items.
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File > Open | Menu names and menu items joined by a
greater than (>) sign indicate a sequence of actions. For example, "Click
File>Open " indicates that in the
File menu, click
Open to perform this action.
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{value | value}
| Indicates a choice of items or values.
You can usually only choose one of the values in the braces.
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[ item ]
| Indicates items that are optional.
Brackets are also used in code examples
to show arrays. |
item [,
item
]...
| Indicates that the item preceding the
ellipsis (three dots) can be repeated.
In some code examples, a horizontal
ellipsis means that not all of the statements are shown.
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Windows* OS
Windows operating system
| These terms refer to all supported
Windows* operating systems.
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compiler option
| This term refers to Windows* OS options
that can be used on the compiler command line.
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