Declarations

Declarations are parts of the program that tell the compiler things, but don’t actually do anything. In the following code snippet

verb "xyzzy"
   *                            DoXyzzy

attribute painted
property color
object table "wooden table"
{
   is painted
   color "viridian"
}

routine DoXyzzy
{
   "Nothing happens."
}

everything except the routine DoXyzzy and the code that follows it, are all declarations. They simply inform the compiler about the data used by the program or define things. They do not actually perform any actions. The following language commands in Hugo are declarations:

• The asterisk symbol (*) when used to define parameters to the verb command
• The line comment symbol, exclamation point !
• The block comment, a group of lines beginning with !\ and ending with \!
• attribute
• constant
• enumerate
• global
• The globals parameter to the enumerate command
• local
• property
• verb

See Also: code, keywords