Whitespace

Just like comments, whitespace characters (spaces and tabs) can be used to aid code readibility and maintenance with no effect on the resulting compiled code. Whitespace characters may be incorporated within SCL commands (outside quoted character strings) to align keywords and generally aid legibility. Commands may also be broken up onto multiple lines using the line continuation character to aid readibility.

The Script compiler allows some ASCII control characters, the non-printing characters with an ASCII value in the range 0x00 to 0x20, or 0x81 to 0x8F inclusive, to appear at the start or end of a line. These characters are ignored allowing characters such as the form-feed to be used to aid legibility. Otherwise, if any ASCII character that has a value in the ranges 0x00 to 0x20, 0x7F to 0xA0, or the value 0xFF appears anywhere in the Script the compiler will generate a compilation error.