Base terms

Base terms are terms within an expression that are not further divisible, i.e. terms that do not contain another operator.

The table below shows the different base terms with their representation in metasyntax:

Base term	Representation
Number	<integer>
String literals	<c-string> / <x-string>
Boolean constant	<boole-const>
Variable name	<composed-name>
Function call	<functioncall>

These base terms are described in detail in the sections below.