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Identifiers

Identifiers are names the user assigns when defining program, procedure, variable, and constant names. They are assumed to be user-defined procedures if they are not previously declared as either variable or constant and are used in the right-hand side of an assignment (such as ‘y := f(x)’). As such, users can’t use names reserved for nu/TPU built-ins, keywords, variables, or constants.

Identifier names may contain only alphabetic characters (a-z) or (A-Z), the numbers (0-9), the underscore character (_), or the dollar sign character ($). Identifier names may not contain spaces. All identifier names must begin with an alphabetic character and be less than 32 (VMS 132) characters in length. Identifiers are case-insensitive.