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variable name
subject			fact

variable name	has convention it consists of several words joined together with the first letter of the variable name in lowercase, each successive word beginning with a capital letter and all other letters lowercase
	has example loadFile areaCode quitGame
	is case sensitive
	is a subtopic of Variables and Data Types
	is a kind of name
	may contain any combination of Unicode characters after the first character
	may not start with a number
	must start with a letter, an underscore character (_) or a dollar sign ($)
name	is made up of a sequence of Unicode characters
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional

Kinds of variable name :

• constant name (4 facts)
• fully qualified variable name (4 facts)
• simple variable name (6 facts)