identifier
An identifier is a sequence of characters used for representing the name of a variable, a class, a method, a property, a constant or an event.
- The first character of an identifier must be an alphabetic character, an underscore, or the dollar sign.
- The other characters can be any alphabetic character, any digit, an underscore, the dollar sign, or the question mark.
Here are some valid identifiers:
- A
- i
- Xyz1972
- Null?
- $Global_Var
- _DoNotUse
- Event_Handler
Some identifiers in
Gambas are reserved keywords, and so cannot be used as variable names.
To prevent the compiler from interpreting an
identifier as a reserved keyword, put it between braces, like that:
DIM {Default} AS String
DIM {Dim} AS Collection