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The characters and whitespace that define the boundaries and sections of an Avail code block. Note that Avail block delimiters ( and ) are not usually part of an enveloping expression; this contrasts with other programming languages that require parentheses around an if condition and/or braces around the then block. In these languages, the delimiters are part of the expression itself. In Avail, certain contexts may accept either a single compact expression or an entire delimited block to evaluate to a single value, so the delimiters are always interpreted as part of the contents, and not part of the context.

The characters and whitespace that signal a method is being defined, excluding the method name and definition block.

The code establishing a method name, or identifying the structure of a method call within a string literal used as part of a method name (i.e. method name metacharacters). In Avail code, methods may be named using any string- or atom-valued expression. In practice, it would make little sense to style an expression or block used to calculate a method name in a special way just because it is used inline in a method definition, so for the purposes of styling, only string literals, atom literals, atom creation sends that embed a string literal, and uses of single string or atom variables or constants will be classified this way. When a lexical element is classified as a METHOD_NAME, that style is applied to all characters that are outside the string literal AND all method name metacharacters that are inside the string literal, including the meta-escape-character ` but not the characters being escaped.

The name of a parameter being declared. Does not include its type or value.

The usage of a parameter.

The elements of a method name that indicate that method is being called, but not any arguments being passed.

The elements of a macro name that indicate that macro is being called, but not any arguments being passed.

The terminator that indicates the immediately preceding code was a statement.

The type annotation within a definition.

The type annotation within a definition, whenever the defined element is type-valued.

The type annotation within a definition, whenever the defined element is phrase-valued.

The header keywords that appear in the header of a module.

The entire module header, including whitespace and comments.

A module version, i.e., a string literal within a module header Version section.

A module import, i.e., a string literal within a module header Uses section.

A module export, i.e., a string literal within a module header Extends or Names section.

A module entry point, i.e., a string literal within a module header Entries section.

A pragma, i.e., a string literal within the module header Pragma section.

Line and block comments, including delimiters.

Documentation blocks, including delimiters and documentation tag contents.

The name of a module constant at its definition site.

A use of a module constant.

The name of a module variable at its definition site.

A use of a module variable.

The name of a primitive failure reason constant at its definition site.

A use of a primitive failure reason constant.

The name of a local constant at its definition site.

A use of a local constant.

The name of a local variable at its definition site.

A use of a local variable.

The label that identifies the enclosing continuation.

A use of a label.

A string literal, excluding quotation marks around it. Does not include escape sequences.

A string escape sequence, including both the escape character \ and the character(s) that follow it that are being escaped. All escape sequences are styled similarly, even \\ and \", which serve to mark the escape character \ and the delimiter " as actual characters within the string. Also used for delimiting quotes.

A numeric literal, including digits, punctuation, and numeric control characters that indicate base or format (such as 0x, f, e, etc.).

A boolean literal (true or false).

A character literal, including delimiters.

An atom literal, including delimiters. May be overridden if more contextual information is available about the atom's function, e.g., if it serves as a method name, object type field, etc.

A literal of some other Avail datatype than string, number, boolean, character, or atom.

The characters and whitespace that signal a grammatical restriction is being defined for a method or macro, excluding the name and definition block.

The characters and whitespace that signal a special object is being bound or accessed, excluding any literals (like name or ordinal).

The optional primitive name in a block.

The fixed syntax used to construct a phrase.

The return value of a block.

The token should indicate it is being excluded from something.

The Avail A_String version of the kotlinString.