Identifiers
Lexer:
IDENTIFIER_OR_KEYWORD :
[a
-z
A
-Z
] [a
-z
A
-Z
0
-9
_
]*
|_
[a
-z
A
-Z
0
-9
_
]+RAW_IDENTIFIER :
r#
IDENTIFIER_OR_KEYWORD Exceptcrate
,extern
,self
,super
,Self
NON_KEYWORD_IDENTIFIER : IDENTIFIER_OR_KEYWORD Except a strict or reserved keyword
IDENTIFIER :
NON_KEYWORD_IDENTIFIER | RAW_IDENTIFIER
An identifier is any nonempty ASCII string of the following form:
Either
- The first character is a letter.
- The remaining characters are alphanumeric or
_
.
Or
- The first character is
_
. - The identifier is more than one character.
_
alone is not an identifier. - The remaining characters are alphanumeric or
_
.
A raw identifier is like a normal identifier, but prefixed by r#
. (Note that
the r#
prefix is not included as part of the actual identifier.)
Unlike a normal identifier, a raw identifier may be any strict or reserved
keyword except the ones listed above for RAW_IDENTIFIER
.