Chapter 2. Syntactic Conventions

The rest of this document uses the following syntactic conventions.

The syntax {...} encloses a set of alternatives.
The syntax [...] encloses a set of structure components.
In general, TYPEs are in uppercase and AlternativeValues are capitalized.
Requests in section 9 are described in the following format:
```
RequestName
     arg1: type1
     ...
     argN: typeN
   ▶
     result1: type1
     ...
     resultM: typeM

     Errors: kind1, ..., kindK

     Description.
```
If no ▶ is present in the description, then the request has no reply (it is asynchronous), although errors may still be reported. If ▶+ is used, then one or more replies can be generated for a single request.

Events in section 11 are described in the following format:

EventName
     value1: type1
     ...
     valueN: typeN

     Description.