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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual.cli | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/testscript.cli | 4 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual.cli b/doc/manual.cli index 83abe86..5aea9c1 100644 --- a/doc/manual.cli +++ b/doc/manual.cli @@ -3157,7 +3157,10 @@ detail and with more precision. Buildfile is primarily a declarative language with support for variables, pure functions, repetition (\c{for}-loop), conditional inclusion/exclusion -(\c{if-else}), and pattern matching (\c{switch}). +(\c{if-else}), and pattern matching (\c{switch}). At the lexical level, +\c{buildfiles} are UTF-8 encoded text restricted to the Unicode graphic +characters, tabs (\c{\\t}), carriage returns (\c{\\r}), and line feeds +(\c{\\n}). Buildfile is a line-oriented language. That is, every construct ends at the end of the line unless escaped with line continuation (trailing \c{\\}). For diff --git a/doc/testscript.cli b/doc/testscript.cli index 5d50472..d39893a 100644 --- a/doc/testscript.cli +++ b/doc/testscript.cli @@ -1082,6 +1082,10 @@ failures (due to unexpected output) to go undetected. \h1#lexical|Lexical Structure| +At the lexical level, testscripts are UTF-8 encoded text restricted to the +Unicode graphic characters, tabs (\c{\\t}), carriage returns (\c{\\r}), and +line feeds (\c{\\n}). + Testscript is a line-oriented language with a context-dependent lexical structure. It \"borrows\" several building blocks (variable expansion, function calls, and evaluation contexts; collectively called \i{expansions} |