12.3 Blocks

Units and programs are made of blocks. A block is made of declarations of labels, constants, types variables and functions or procedures. Blocks can be nested in certain ways, i.e., a procedure or function declaration can have blocks in themselves. A block looks like the following:

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Blocks
-- --block -declaration part- statement part--------------------------------

-- --declaration part---|----------------------------------------------
6|------label declaration part----| |
||----constant declaration part----| |
||--resourcestring declaration part--| |
||------type declaration part------| |
|------variable declaration part----| |
|- threadvariable declaration part -| |
--procedure/function-declaration-part---|

-- --label declaration part label--6label---;------------------------------
,

-- --constant declaration part const---|---constant declaration---------------
6 -typed constant declaration-|
--------------------------

-- --resourcestring declaration part resourcestring--|string constant declaration--
6----------------------

-- -- - --- -------------------------
type declaration part type 6type declaration-|

-- --threadvariable declaration part threadvar -|variable declaration-------------
6-----------------

-- --procedure/function declaration part--| procedure declaration--------------
6|-function declaration---||
||constructor declaration-||
||destructor declaration--||
----------------------|

-- --statement part-compound statement---------------------------------
___________________________________________________________________

Labels that can be used to identify statements in a block are declared in the label declaration part of that block. Each label can only identify one statement. Constants that are to be used only in one block should be declared in that block's constant declaration part. Variables that are to be used only in one block should be declared in that block's constant declaration part. Types that are to be used only in one block should be declared in that block's constant declaration part. Lastly, functions and procedures that will be used in that block can be declared in the procedure/function declaration part. After the dierent declaration parts comes the statement part. This contains any actions that the block should execute. All identiers declared before the statement part can be used in that statement part.

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