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  • From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w...>
  • To: ihe.onwuka@g..., Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:49:18 -0400

On Mon, 2017-08-21 at 13:04 -0400, Ihe Onwuka wrote:

> 
> None of C++, Java, Javascript or Python allow you to start an ID with
> a digit.

Actually C and C++ IDs are pointers, which are numeric.

Fortran IV let you start a variable name with a digit, but identifiers
are not in general the same as identity in programming languages.

Liam


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