Symbols
In Free Form Programming Language (ff) the concept of Symbol is more than one:
- Individual alphabet in a language e.g. x in English , ω in Greek
- Composite of individual symbols e.g. dara that while it is the concatenation of four alphabets ff treats it as a single symbol
- Mathematical symbols e.g. ⨂
- Glyph (Unicode) e.g. 🌊 , 💬
- Glyph a raster image (this option is currently unavailable for HTML use)
The mathematical symbols in many cases have particular syntax and semantics in an expression which cannot be altered or ignored.
ToThe mathematical symbol single space or " " is interpreted multiplication in mathematical textbooks. Additionally in ff often " " is assigned the functionality of separator in a list of items.
o be more general ff defines a Symbol as follows:
An atomic or indivisible structure with no discerning programmable components is called a Symbol.