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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2020-03-09 12:02:24 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2020-03-09 12:02:24 +0200
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Buildfile is primarily a declarative language with support for variables, pure
functions, repetition (\c{for}-loop), conditional inclusion/exclusion
-(\c{if-else}), and pattern matching (\c{switch}).
+(\c{if-else}), and pattern matching (\c{switch}). At the lexical level,
+\c{buildfiles} are UTF-8 encoded text restricted to the Unicode graphic
+characters, tabs (\c{\\t}), carriage returns (\c{\\r}), and line feeds
+(\c{\\n}).
Buildfile is a line-oriented language. That is, every construct ends at the
end of the line unless escaped with line continuation (trailing \c{\\}). For