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  65. <h4 class="subsection">3.10.3 Symbol Names</h4>
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  70. <p>Unless quoted, symbol names start with a letter, underscore, or period
  71. and may include letters, digits, underscores, periods, and hyphens.
  72. Unquoted symbol names must not conflict with any keywords. You can
  73. specify a symbol which contains odd characters or has the same name as a
  74. keyword by surrounding the symbol name in double quotes:
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  76. <pre class="smallexample">&quot;SECTION&quot; = 9;
  77. &quot;with a space&quot; = &quot;also with a space&quot; + 10;
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  79. <p>Since symbols can contain many non-alphabetic characters, it is safest
  80. to delimit symbols with spaces. For example, &lsquo;<samp>A-B</samp>&rsquo; is one symbol,
  81. whereas &lsquo;<samp>A - B</samp>&rsquo; is an expression involving subtraction.
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