Simple References

The simplest objects of data are single numbers of floating, fixed-point or integer types. Identifiers may refer to such objects if suitably declared, e.g.

        INTEGER i, j, k;
FIXED(13,5) x, y;

      

and the declarations may optionally include assignment of initial values. This is known as presetting and is described in . The syntax for a number declaration is

        Numberdec ::= 
    Numbertype
        Idlist
        Presetlist
      

        Idlist ::= 
    Id
        Id , Idlist