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55<H1><A NAME="SECTION004300000000000000000"></A><A NAME="identifiers"></A><a id='l2h-10' xml:id='l2h-10'></a>
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572.3 Identifiers and keywords
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61Identifiers (also referred to as <em>names</em>) are described by the following
62lexical definitions:
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69 <td><a id='tok-identifier' xml:id='tok-identifier'>identifier</a></td>
70 <td>::=</td>
71 <td>(<a class='grammartoken' href="identifiers.html#tok-letter">letter</a>|"_") (<a class='grammartoken' href="identifiers.html#tok-letter">letter</a> | <a class='grammartoken' href="identifiers.html#tok-digit">digit</a> | "_")*</td></tr>
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96Identifiers are unlimited in length. Case is significant.
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