| ! | A unary and binary operator giving 32 bit indirection. |
| ? | A unary and binary operator giving 8 bit indirection. |
| " | A delimiting character in strings. Strings always have an even number of double quotes in them. Double-quotes may be introduced into a string by the escape convention "". |
| # | A character indicating an
immediate operand in assembler. It also precedes reference to a file channel number (and is not optional). |
| $ | A character indicating that the
object has something to do with a string. The syntax $<expression> may be used to position a string anywhere in memory, overriding the interpreter's space allocation. As a suffix on a variable name it indicates a string variable. |
| % | A suffix on a variable name indicating an integer variable. |
| & | A prefix to hexadecimal constants e.g. &EF. |
| ‘ | A character which causes newlines in PRINT or INPUT. |
| () | Objects in parentheses have highest priority. |
| = | A character signifying 'becomes'
in assignment, LET and FOR statements, 'result is' for FN, and relation of 'equal to' on integers, reals and strings. |
| - | Unary negation and binary subtraction on integers and reals. |
| * | Binary multiplication on integers
and reals; statement indicating operating system command. |
| : | Multi-statement line statement delimiter. |
| ; | A character which suppresses forthcoming action in PRINT or INPUT. |
| + | Unary plus and binary addition on integers and reals; concatenation between strings. |
| , | Delimiter in lists. |
| . | Decimal point in real constants;
abbreviation symbol on keyword entry; introduces label in assembler. |
| < | Relation of 'less than' on integers, reals and strings. |
| > | Relation of 'greater than' on integers, reals and strings. |
| / | Binary division on integers and reals. |
| <= | Relation of 'less than or equal' on integers, reals and strings. |
| >= | Relation of 'greater than or equal' on integers, reals and strings. |
| <> | Relation of 'not equal' on integers, reals and strings. |
| [] | Delimiters for assembler
statements. Statements between these delimiters will need
to be assembled twice in order to resolve any forward
references. The pseudo-operation OPT
(initially 3) controls errors and listing. Example: 10 OSWRCH=&FFF4 20 FORZ=lTO3STEP2: P%=TOP+l000 30 [ OPT Z : .START LDA # ASC"!" 40 LDX # 40 50 .LOOP JSR OSWRCH 60 DEX:BNE LOOP 70 RTS:] NEXT 80 CALL START 90 END |
| ^ | Binary operation of exponentiation between integers and reals. |
| ~ | A character in the start of a print field indicating that the item is to be printed in hexadecimal. |