| token | in input |
| Description | A token is essentially a word, a number or a special symbol such as :=. In a Turing program there are four kinds of tokens: keywords such as get, identifiers such as incomeTax, operators and special symbols, such as + and :=, and explicit constants, such as 1.5 and "Hello". Some keywords, such as index, are reserved and cannot be used in programs to name variables, procedures, etc. A get statement, such as
get incomeTaxuses token-oriented input. This means that white space (blanks, tabs, etc.) is skipped before reading the input item and after the item (up to the beginning of the next line). See the get statement for details.
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| Example | In this example, the tokens are var, x, :, real, x, := and 9.84.
var x : real
x := 9.84
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