A nonquoted word that is used in grouping commands or selectively executing them, such as: if, then, else, elif, fi, case, esac, for, while, until, do, or done.
Any word that has a special meaning and therefore cannot be used for any other purpose in the same context.
a string of letters that has syntactic meaning and cannot be used as an identifier. Contrast with keyword.
a syntactic token that has the form of a name but is reserved by the Dylan language and so cannot be given a binding and cannot be used as a named value reference
A word, reserved by Pascal, for special use. Such as the program reserved word which is reserved for declaration of the program name. Reserved words cannot be used for any other purpose. They are also sometimes called keywords. Back to where you were
A word or name that may not be declared or defined by an ordinary user (programmer) of C++. These words are available for use by those creating the C++ Standard Library.
word that has a special meaning to the shell. Most reserved words introduce shell flow control constructs, such as for and while.
(1) A word that has a special meaning in a particular software or operating system. (2) In SQL, a set of words reserved for use in SQL statements; you cannot use a reserved word as the name of a database object.
(keyword) A word which has a predefined meaning to a 'C' compiler and therefore must not be used for any other purpose.
A word that has a defined function in the language, and cannot be used as a variable name.
Predefined terms that have special meaning to the Pascal language, and which can only be used for their specified purpose.
A word that is defined in a programming language for a special purpose, and that must not appear as a user-declared identifier.
A word that is essential for MEL's syntax and therefore must not be used as a variable name.
In computer programming languages, a reserved word is a word which has a special grammatical meaning to a language and cannot be used as an identifier in that language.