Keywords

The following words are treated as keywords in Mercury, and have special meaning:

RemObjects Mercury Keywords

• AutoReleasePool – for Cocoa Auto-Release Pools
• Check – Class Contracts
• CTryType – optional variant of CType
• Dynamic – Dynamic
• Ensure – Class Contracts
• Extends – Extension Types
• Invariants – Class Contracts
• Lazy – Lazy Properties
• Null
• Old – Class Contracts
• Ptr – Pointers
• Record – Records
• Require – Class Contracts
• Zip – LINQ Operator

Standard Visual Basic.NET™ Keywords

These standard keywords are defined by Microsoft's Visual Basic.NET language, and are also all used by Mercury:

• AddHandler
• AddressOf
• Alias
• And
• AndAlso
• As
• Async
• Boolean
• ByRef
• Byte
• ByVal
• Call
• Case
• Catch
• CBool
• CByte
• CChar
• CDate
• CDec
• CDbl
• Char
• CInt
• Class
• CLng
• CObj
• Const
• Continue
• CSByte
• CShort
• CSng
• CStr
• CType
• CUInt
• CULng
• CUShort
• Custom
• Date
• Decimal
• Declare
• Default
• Delegate
• Dim
• DirectCast
• Do
• Double
• Each
• Else
• ElseIf
• End
• EndIf
• Enum
• Erase
• Error
• Event
• Exit
• False
• Finally
• For
• Friend
• Function
• Get
• GetType
• GetXMLNamespace
• Global
• GoSub
• GoTo
• Handles
• If
• If()
• Implements
• Imports
• In
• Inherits
• Integer
• Interface
• Iterator
• Is
• IsNot
• Let
• Lib
• Like
• Long
• Loop
• Me
• Mod
• Module
• MustInherit
• MustOverride
• MyBase
• MyClass
• Namespace
• Narrowing
• New
• Next
• Not
• Nothing
• NotInheritable
• NotOverridable
• Object
• Of
• On
• Operator
• Option
• Optional
• Or
• OrElse
• Overloads
• Overridable
• Overrides
• ParamArray
• Partial
• Private
• Property
• Protected
• Public
• RaiseEvent
• ReadOnly
• ReDim
• REM
• RemoveHandler
• Resume
• Return
• SByte
• Select
• Set
• Shadows
• Shared
• Short
• Single
• Static
• Step
• Stop
• String
• Structure
• Sub
• SyncLock
• Then
• Throw
• To
• True
• Try
• TryCast
• TypeOf
• Variant
• Wend
• UInteger
• ULong
• UShort
• Using
• When
• While
• Widening
• With
• WithEvents
• WriteOnly
• Xor