[fpc-pascal] A bug in documentation?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Tue Oct 26 09:59:46 CEST 2010



On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Vladimir Zhirov wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Language Reference, Section 1.4 Identifiers says:
>
>> Identifiers consist of between 1 and 127 significant characters
>> (letters, digits and the underscore character), of which the
>> first must be an alphanumeric character, or an underscore (_).
>
> Should "alphanumeric" be "alphabetic" here? Since
> alphanumeric = alphabetic + numeric it looks like
> starting an identifier with a number is valid,
> but it is not.
>
> (http://freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse4.html#x16-150001.4)

You are correct. I will correct this.

Michael.



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