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<h3 class="section">3.4 Symbols</h3>

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<p>A <em>symbol</em> is one or more characters chosen from the set of all
letters (both upper and lower case), digits and the three characters
&lsquo;<samp>_.$</samp>&rsquo;.
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There is no length limit; all characters are significant.  Multibyte characters
are supported.  Symbols are delimited by characters not in that set, or by the
beginning of a file (since the source program must end with a newline, the end
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<p>Symbol names may also be enclosed in double quote <code>&quot;</code> characters.  In such
cases any characters are allowed, except for the NUL character.  If a double
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