Identifier Naming Rule

[udayadas]

Hi,

Through out my entire career I have taken the naming convention for Java identifiers as granted, till one day my wife asked me what is the problem in having a Java identifier name start with a number.Why the compiler shouts..

I really had no answer.There has to be a valid reason for it.Please help me friends.


Thanks in advance

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Because the Java Gods (the JLS) have decreed it thusly?: Lexical Structure