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Lexical Elements
* Identifiers: 255 characters are significant in internal and
external names.
* Character Constants: Any character constant of more than one
character produces a warning. The value of an integral character
constant containing more than one character is computed by
concatenating the 8-bit ASCII code values of the characters, with
the leftmost character being the most significant. For example,
the character constant 'AB' has the value 256*'A'+'B' = 256*65+66
= 16706. Only the rightmost four characters participate in the
computation.
* The case of alphabetic characters is always significant in
external names.
* The execution character set and the source character set are both
ASCII.
* Nonprinting characters in character constants and string literals
must be represented as escape sequences.