Character Set

MPL recognizes the following ASCII characters:

Letters

65-90 A..Z Upper case letters
97-122 a..z Lower case letters
38 & Ampersand
39 ' Aphostrophe
64 @ At-sign
95 _ Underscore
96 ` Grave accent

Digits

48-57 0..9 Digits
46 . Decimal point

White Space and Comments

0-31 Control characters (white space)
32 ' ' Space (Whitespace)
33 ! Exclamation point (start a comment)
123 { Left baces (opens a comment)
125 } Right baces (closes a comment)

Special Symbols

34 " Double quotation mark (quoted names)
35 # Numper sign (include commands)
36 $ Dollar sign (advanced commands)
44 , Comma (item separator)
45,62 -> Becomes (name abbreviation)
46,46 .. Dots (index range)
58 : Colon (constraint name)
59 : Semicolon (separator)
63 ? Question mark (interactive data value)
91 [ Left bracket (vector index)
93 ] Right bracket (vector index)

Aritmetic Operators

37 % Persent sign
40 ( Left parenthesis
41 ) Right parenthesis
42 * Multiplication symbol
43 + Plus sign
45 + Minus sign
47 / Division symbol
94 ^ Circumflex

Relational Operators

60 < Less than
61 = Equal sign
62 > Greater than
60,61 <= Less than or equal
62, 61 >= Greater than or equal

Reserved characters for future use

92 \ Backslash
124 | Verical bar
126 ~ Tilde

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