1. VB Language Reference Guide
  2. Typographic Conventions That This Book Uses

Typographic Conventions That This Book Uses

The following table describes the typographic conventions that this book uses.

Item That This Book Represents Convention

Statements and functions.

Initial uppercase letters. For example:

Abs Len(variable)

Arguments for statements or functions.

Letters that are in lowercase and that are italicized. A capital letter that occurs in a position other than the first letter can identify multiple English words. For example:

  • variable

  • rate

  • prompt

  • stringVar

Optional arguments or characters.

Square brackets. For example:

  • [caption]

  • [type]

  • [$]

Required choice for an argument from a list of choices.

A list in curly brackets. An OR operator ( | ) separates the possible choices. For example:

{Goto label | Resume Next | Goto 0}

For more information, see the following items:

  • Creating script that runs on UNIX and that uses a Siebel object manager, see Siebel Events Management Guide.

  • Creating, modifying, and deleting Siebel VB scripts that you use in Siebel Tools, see Siebel Object Interfaces Reference.