Delimiters

A delimiter is one of the following characters:

<delimiter>::= = | , | / | ; |:

• = (equal sign) and , (comma) are used to separate terms from each other and are fully interchangeable. In the following sections, they will be used alternatively.

• / (slash) is used to mark the end of a sequence of connected terms.

• ; (semicolon) marks the end of a statement.

• : (colon) is used as delimiter between name strings (see below) in repetition terms.

  However, certain functions within the system suppose that a first value following a keyword is preceded by an equal sign and that the following values are preceded by commas (or colons).