X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Flanguage.texi;h=78d38acdc6f0813fe2e1666fa7ddfa8b5bb69c31;hb=c0d0b8039a3cd836398a76a0a884d6166ed761e0;hp=50e8f646aea4aaac7f3efc9955b78318d8d49a55;hpb=5c3291dc396b795696e94f47780308fd7ace6fc4;p=pspp-builds.git diff --git a/doc/language.texi b/doc/language.texi index 50e8f646..78d38acd 100644 --- a/doc/language.texi +++ b/doc/language.texi @@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ @cindex language, PSPP @cindex PSPP, language -@note{PSPP is not even close to completion. -Only a few statistical procedures are implemented. PSPP -is a work in progress.} - This chapter discusses elements common to many PSPP commands. Later chapters will describe individual commands in detail. @@ -116,8 +112,7 @@ significant inside strings. Strings can be concatenated using @samp{+}, so that @samp{"a" + 'b' + 'c'} is equivalent to @samp{'abc'}. Concatenation is useful for -splitting a single string across multiple source lines. The maximum -length of a string, after concatenation, is 255 characters. +splitting a single string across multiple source lines. Strings may also be expressed as hexadecimal, octal, or binary character values by prefixing the initial quote character by @samp{X}, @@ -152,11 +147,6 @@ punctuator only as the last character on a line (except white space). When it is the last non-space character on a line, a period is not treated as part of another token, even if it would otherwise be part of, e.g.@:, an identifier or a floating-point number. - -Actually, the character that ends a command can be changed with -@cmd{SET}'s ENDCMD subcommand (@pxref{SET}), but we do not recommend -doing so. Throughout the remainder of this manual we will assume that -the default setting is in effect. @end table @node Commands @@ -184,9 +174,7 @@ by a forward slash (@samp{/}). There are multiple ways to mark the end of a command. The most common way is to end the last line of the command with a period (@samp{.}) as described in the previous section (@pxref{Tokens}). A blank line, or -one that consists only of white space or comments, also ends a command -by default, although you can use the NULLINE subcommand of @cmd{SET} -to disable this feature (@pxref{SET}). +one that consists only of white space or comments, also ends a command. @node Syntax Variants @section Variants of syntax. @@ -212,9 +200,9 @@ new command, which allows for visual indentation of a command without that command being considered part of the previous command. The period terminating the end of a command is optional but recommended. -In interactive mode, each command must either be terminated with a period, -or an empty line must follow the command. -The use of (@samp{+} and @samp{@minus{}} as continuation characters is not +In interactive mode, each command must be terminated with a period +or by a blank line. +The use of @samp{+} and @samp{@minus{}} as continuation characters is not permitted. @node Types of Commands @@ -379,9 +367,7 @@ spaces. Variables, whether numeric or string, can have designated @dfn{user-missing values}. Every user-missing value is an actual value for that variable. However, most of the time user-missing values are -treated in the same way as the system-missing value. String variables -that are wider than a certain width, usually 8 characters (depending on -computer architecture), cannot have user-missing values. +treated in the same way as the system-missing value. For more information on missing values, see the following sections: @ref{Variables}, @ref{MISSING VALUES}, @ref{Expressions}. See also the