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Whitespace is a collective name given to spaces (blanks), horizontal and vertical tabs, new-line characters and comments. Whitespace can serve to indicate where tokens start and end, but beyond this function, any surplus whitespace is discarded.
For example, the two sequences
U1 = 35; // a comment U2 = 'Hello'; |
and
U1 = 35 ; // a comment U2 = 'Hello' ; |
are lexically equivalent and parse identically to give eight tokens:
U1 = 35 ; U2 = 'Hello' ; |