Language

OpenQASM refers to the extended language we now describe, specifically OpenQASM Version 3.0.

The human-readable form of OpenQASM is a simple, case-sensitive textual language. Statements are separated by semicolons and whitespace is ignored.

In other respects, OpenQASM possesses a dual nature as an assembly language and as a hardware description language.

Appendix [app:summary] summarizes the language statements, Appendix [app:grammar] specifies the grammar, and Appendix [app:semantics] gives formal semantics.