Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, Version 3.8, Language Reference Manual

Composite symbols

You can combine special characters to create composite symbols. The following table describes these symbols and their meanings. Composite symbols cannot contain blanks.

Table 4. Composite symbol description
Composite Symbol Meaning
|| Concatenation
** Exponentiation
¬< Not less than
¬> Not greater than
¬= Not equal to; Evaluate, exclusive-or and assign
<= Less than or equal to
>= Greater than or equal to
/* Start of a comment
*/ End of a comment
-> Locator (pointers and offsets)
=> Locator (handles)
+= Evaluate expression, add and assign
-= Evaluate expression, subtract and assign
*= Evaluate expression, multiply and assign
/= Evaluate expression, divide and assign
|= Evaluate expression, or and assign
&= Evaluate expression, and, and assign
||= Evaluate expression, concatenate and assign
**= Evaluate expression, exponentiate and assign

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