Delimiters

Delimiters are used to specify a group or list of text blocks. The delimiters used in VTS are:

1.  Square brackets [ ] are used to group:

      variable declarations

      variables of the same class

      the functions and actions in a state

      the script of an action

      the element index of an array

 

2.  Parentheses ( ) are used to group:

      the parameter declarations of a module

      parameters of a module or function call

      terms in an expression to force a certain order of evaluation

      variable class definitions

      module reference box values

 

3.  Curly braces { } are used:

      to delimit comments

 

4.  Double quotes " " are used:

      to delimit a string constant

 

5.  Angle brackets < > (really the greater than / less than signs) are used:

      to delimit entire sub-module definitions