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2.3 Identifiers and keywords

Identifiers (also referred to as names) are described by the following lexical definitions:

identifier (letter | "_") (letter | digit | "_")*

letter lowercase | uppercase

lowercase "a"..."z"

uppercase "A"..."Z"

digit "0"..."9"

Identifiers are unlimited in length. Case is significant.