Reserved Words and Symbols

Certain words in CPL have special meaning. These words are reserved and may not be used as function or variable names within a program. They are shown below. Reserved words are used to control program flow, logic, and structure.

and, begin, break, case, cycle, default, else, end, for, if, mod, or, return, switch, while

In addition to the reserved words, there are a number of reserved symbols. These symbols constitute the CPL math and comparison operators, the comments enclosures, and the character literal and string enclosures.

{ } /* */ ‘ “ & = * + -> - . / <> <= < == >= > |