Chapter 3 The Application Description Language
3.12 Built-in Function Calls
The ADL provides a set of built-in function calls to access functions from the C standard library and to operate on expressions of base type, compound type, and complex type. Appendix A, "Built-In Functions for ADL" page 261 documents these functions, which currently fall into the following categories:
User-defined functions are not permitted. Messages to global objects currently provide equivalent functionality. All arguments to built-in functions are passed by value, although such an argument can be a handle to an underlying base, compound, complex, or object type.
Sample Function Calls
| random( [1,5) ) |
| length( name ) |
AM2 Documentation - 19 NOV 1996
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