Names

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Names are given to variables, fields in work areas, properties, events, methods, functions, and classes. The following rules are the naming conventions in dBL:

A name begins with an underscore or letter, and contains any combination of underscores, letters, spaces, or digits.

If the name contains spaces, it must be enclosed in colons.

The letters may be uppercase or lowercase. dBL is not case-sensitive.

With dBL, only the first 32 characters in a name are significant. There can be more than 32, but the extra characters are ignored. For example, the following two names are considered to be the same:

 theFirst_32_CharactersAreTheSameButTheRestArent

 theFirst_32_CharactersAreTheSameAndTheRestDontMatter

The following are some examples of valid names:

x

:First name:

DbException

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messages1_onOpen