Reserved word
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reserved-word-286-2366588
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Reserved word
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In a computer language, a reserved word is a word that cannot be used as an identifier, such as the name of a variable, function, or label – it is "reserved from use". This is a syntactic definition, and a reserved word may have no user-defined meaning. A closely related and often conflated notion is a keyword, which is a word with special meaning in a particular context. This is a semantic definition. By contrast, names in a standard library but not built into a language are not considered rese
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Word in a programming language that cannot be used as an identifier
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_word
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2023-12-12T01:27:11Z
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