Legal Names
APL objects may be given names. A name may be any sequence of characters, starting with a non-numeric character, selected from the following:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_ |
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz |
ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝß |
àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüþ |
0123456789 |
∆⍙ |
ⒶⒷⒸⒹⒺⒻⒼⒽⒾⒿⓀⓁⓂⓃⓄⓅⓆⓇⓈⓉⓊⓋⓌⓍⓎⓏ |
Note that using a standard Unicode font (rather than APL385 Unicode used in the table above), the last row above would appear as the circled alphabet, Ⓐ to Ⓩ.
Examples
| Legal | Illegal |
|---|---|
THIS∆IS∆A∆NAME |
BAD NAME |
X1233 |
3+21 |
SALES |
S!H|PRICE |
pjb_1 |
1_pjb |