The following typographical conventions are used in this book.
Italic is used for:
Directory pathnames and filenames
Domain names and URLs
New terms where they are first defined
Constant width
is used for:
Code examples and output
Names and keywords in C# programs, including method or field names, variable names, and class names
XML and HTML element tags
Registry keys
Constant width italic
is used for:
Replaceable parameter names or user-provided elements in syntax
In several parts of this book, we have included simple grammar specifications
for many, but not all, of the language constructs introduced in this book,
to provide you with a fast way to understand the grammar of a particular construct
and its valid combinations. In this grammar syntax, the XML occurrence operators
(?
, *
, and +
) are
used to specify more precisely the number of times an element may occur in
a particular construct:
-
x
Indicates x is to be used verbatim (
constant width
)-
x
Indicates x is supplied by the programmer (
constant width italic
)-
x?
Indicates x may occur zero or one times.
-
x*
Indicates x may occur zero or more times, separated by commas.
-
x+
Indicates x may occur one or more times, separated by commas.
-
[...]
Indicates a logical grouping of code elements, when not implicitly grouped using the verbatim terms
{}
,()
, and[]
.-
[x|y]
Indicates only one of a choice of code elements may occur.
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