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The tutorial states that variable names can start only with a letter or an underscore.

Any identifier in Java can start with a letter, a seperator(Underscore) or a currency symbol like $ or even \u20b9

letters can also be \u0a85 any letter from the Unicode character set.

Java Numerical-Datatypes 06-07 min 40-50 sec 29-01-19, 6:10 p.m. PravinJain

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The only allowed characters for java variables names are all alphanumeric characters, any currency symbol and underscore.

Variable names should not start with digits and java keywords can’t be used as variable names.

16-04-20, 8:05 a.m. srinivasrj129@gmail.com

What does alphanumeric mean? It gives an impression that only letters from (A-Z,a-z,0-9) are allowed.

Whereas what is allowed is any letter from the Unicode character set. eg. we can have a class called

\u0938\u0942\u091a\u0940(suchi in devanagari) having a method called \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0925\u092e (pratham in devanagari).

16-04-20, 10:30 a.m. PravinJain

You can also refer to https://books.google.co.in/books?id=lGRpeBZQYPoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+class+of+Java+by+pravin+jain&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVhOaVlezoAhV5ycQBHZN2BqAQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=The%20class%20of%20Java%20by%20pravin%20jain&f=false

section 3.2

16-04-20, 10:34 a.m. PravinJain

1. Only allowed characters for java identifiers are a to z, A to Z, 0 to 9, _, $. If we are using any other character, compile time error will be thrown by compiler.<o:p></o:p>

2. Identifiers can’t start with digits.<o:p></o:p>

3. Java identifiers are case sensitive. Java language is considered as case sensitive programming language.<o:p></o:p>

4. There is no length limit for java identifiers, but it is not recommended to take too lengthy identifiers.<o:p></o:p>

5. We can’t use reserved word as identifiers.<o:p></o:p>

6. All predefined java class names and Interface names can be used as identifiers. Ex. String, Runnable. Even though it is valid, it is not good programming practice, as it reduces readability and creates confusion.<o:p></o:p>

01-05-20, 3:28 p.m. pankajap@cse.iitb.ac.in

Point 1 is incorrect. You can use Letters, Digits, Separator and Currency Symbol from the entire Unicode character set and not just ASCII.

Use of currency symbol \u20b9 indian Rupee symbol is also valid, so are all the letters and digits from all the other languages. eg. \u0905 the devenagari letter A is also valid, you can compile and check.

Java has good support for Unicode characters since the beginning and the size of char data type is 16-bit and not restricted to 8-bits as is the case in C.

01-05-20, 3:58 p.m. PravinJain

In Java there are a few simple rules for variable names:

    Names must start with a letter. Use only letters, digits or the underscore ( _ ) in the rest of the name.
    Don’t start with a numbers or use special characters ($,%,@)
    Separate words with ‘camelHump’ notation
    Variable names are case-sensitive
    Don’t use reserved ‘Java’ words
    Variables start with lower case, class names with upper case (by convention, not a ‘rule’)

06-12-21, 9:26 p.m. Harish1605

Rules for variable names:

1) Don't use keywords as a variable names.

2)Variable names must start with letter only,

3) We have use only letters, underscores,or digits for declaring variables.

4) Don't use numerical at beginning or any special character.

5) Don't use class name as a variable name.

6) Variable names must be in a single word i.e distance_from_school.

17-06-25, 7:13 a.m. sakshishinde2772004@gmail.com

Rules for variable names:

1. Cannot start with a digit

2. Can contain letters, digits, dollar signs, and underscores.

3.Cannot use Java reserved keywords.

4.Variable names cannot contain spaces.

27-06-25, 2 p.m. patilmayuri8010@gmail.com

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