Visual Basic Language Specification.docx

The Microsoft?Visual Basic?Language Specification Version 11.0  Filename:  FILENAME \* MERGEFORMAT Visual Basic Language Specification 10.0 (13th Draft).docx  PAGE 3 Table of Contents Table of Contents  PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 564  PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 565  PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 547 Table of Contents  TOC \o 3-9 \h \z \t Heading 1,1,Heading 2,2  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771107 1. Introduction  PAGEREF _Toc324771107 \h 1  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771108 1.1 Grammar Notation  PAGEREF _Toc324771108 \h 1  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771109 1.2 Compatibility  PAGEREF _Toc324771109 \h 2  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771110 1.2.1 Kinds of compatibility breaks  PAGEREF _Toc324771110 \h 2  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771111 1.2.2 Impact Criteria  PAGEREF _Toc324771111 \h 3  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771112 1.2.3 Language deprecation  PAGEREF _Toc324771112 \h 3  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771113 2. Lexical Grammar  PAGEREF _Toc324771113 \h 5  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771114 2.1 Characters and Lines  PAGEREF _Toc324771114 \h 5  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771115 2.1.1 Line Terminators  PAGEREF _Toc324771115 \h 5  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771116 2.1.2 Line Continuation  PAGEREF _Toc324771116 \h 5  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771117 2.1.3 White Space  PAGEREF _Toc324771117 \h 7  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771118 2.1.4 Comments  PAGEREF _Toc324771118 \h 7  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771119 2.2 Identifiers  PAGEREF _Toc324771119 \h 7  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771120 2.2.1 Type Characters  PAGEREF _Toc324771120 \h 8  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771121 2.3 Keywords  PAGEREF _Toc324771121 \h 9  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771122 2.4 Literals  PAGEREF _Toc324771122 \h 11  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771123 2.4.1 Boolean Literals  PAGEREF _Toc324771123 \h 11  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771124 2.4.2 Integer Literals  PAGEREF _Toc324771124 \h 11  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771125 2.4.3 Floating-Point Literals  PAGEREF _Toc324771125 \h 12  HYPERLINK \l _Toc324771126 2.4.4 String