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variable name comparison table

Subject	use	have example	begin with	be the same as	see also	is a subtopic of		have convention
constant name		PI DEBUG PENALTY				Constants		the name is written in all capital letters
fully qualified variable name	to disambiguate two members of different packages with the same name	loadFile areaCode quitGame			simple name	Variables and Data Types	the fully qualified name for a member must be used if the member is in a different package and if the member's package has not been imported	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
simple variable name		loadFile areaCode quitGame	a lowercase letter	the name of another variable in its scope	fully qualified name	Variables and Data Types	the simple name for a member can be used if the member is in the same package as the code you are writing or if the member's package has been imported	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

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