[fpc-pascal] A bug in documentation?

Vladimir Zhirov vvzh.lists at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 10:03:01 CEST 2010


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)



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