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Expand Up @@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ is_id_char(c::AbstractChar) = ccall(:jl_id_char, Cint, (UInt32,), c) != 0
Return whether the symbol or string `s` contains characters that are parsed as
a valid identifier in Julia code.

Internally Julia allows any sequence of characters in a `Symbol` (except `\0`s),
Internally Julia allows any sequence of characters in a `Symbol` (except `\\0`s),
and macros automatically use variable names containing `#` in order to avoid
naming collision with the surrounding code. In order for the parser to
recognize a variable, it uses a limited set of characters (greatly extended by
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