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  64. <h3 class="section">3.4 Symbols</h3>
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  66. <p>A <em>symbol</em> is one or more characters chosen from the set of all
  67. letters (both upper and lower case), digits and the three characters
  68. &lsquo;<samp>_.$</samp>&rsquo;.
  69. On most machines, you can also use <code>$</code> in symbol names; exceptions
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  71. No symbol may begin with a digit. Case is significant.
  72. There is no length limit; all characters are significant. Multibyte characters
  73. are supported. Symbols are delimited by characters not in that set, or by the
  74. beginning of a file (since the source program must end with a newline, the end
  75. of a file is not a possible symbol delimiter). See <a href="Symbols.html#Symbols">Symbols</a>.
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  77. <p>Symbol names may also be enclosed in double quote <code>&quot;</code> characters. In such
  78. cases any characters are allowed, except for the NUL character. If a double
  79. quote character is to be included in the symbol name it must be preceeded by a
  80. backslash <code>\</code> character.
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