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A Pascal program is composed entirely of lexical elements. These elements are individual symbols, such as arithmetic operators, or they may be words that have special meanings in Pascal. The basic unit of any lexical element is a character, which must be a member of the ASCII character set. The words used in a Pascal program are combinations of alphabetic and numeric characters and occasionally a dollar sign ($), an underscore (_), or a percent sign (%). Some words are reserved for the names of executable statements, operations, and predefined data structures. Other words in a Pascal program are identifiers. Predeclared identifiers represent routines and data types provided by Compaq Pascal. Other identifiers are created by the use to name programs, symbolic constants, variables, and any necessary program elements that have not already been named.
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