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authorbnewbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org>2009-11-19 21:03:13 +0000
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Procedures are called with a comma seperated list-like syntax where the first
-element is the procedure and the following elements are arguments.
+element is the procedure and the following elements are arguments.
-Command Interface
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+The ``!`` character as a prefix is used to designate system variables.
+
+``;`` is used for commenting.
+
+``.`` can be used to start executive commands,
+Indicate constant is floating point
+Start executive command
+
+``&`` separates multiple statements/expressions on a single line (like ``;``
+often does in other languages).
+
+``*`` can be used for pointer dereferencing, as well as for multiplication
+and a wild card in array slicing.
+
+``@`` is used to include files, or execute a batch file.
+
+``?`` brings up the IDL GUI help interface when entered at the
+command line.
-Instead of the ever-standard ``!`` to execute system commands, use ``$``.
+Instead of the ever-standard ``!`` to execute system commands, use ``$``. Also,
+an ``$`` at the end of a line means continue to the next line, like ``\``.
X Windows
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