Script and Statement Construction Rules

This chapter describes the rules for writing the basic elements of a script in the LotusScript® language.

Statement construction rules
Literal number construction rules
Literal string construction rules
A literal string in LotusScript is a string of any characters enclosed in one of the following sets of delimiters:
Identifier construction rules
An identifier is the name you give to a variable, a constant, a type, a class, a function, a sub, or a property.
Labels
A label gives a name to a statement. A label is built in the same way as an identifier.
Keywords
A keyword is a word with a reserved meaning in the LotusScript language. The keywords name LotusScript statements, built-in functions, built-in constants, and data types. The keywords New and Delete can be used to name subs that you can define in a script. Other keywords are not names, but appear in statements: for example, NoCase or Binary. Some of the LotusScript operators are keywords, such as Eqv and Imp.
Special characters
LotusScript uses special characters, such as punctuation marks, for several purposes:

Parent topic: LotusScript Language