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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ classes (Unicode general category given in parentheses):
#. Whitespace characters. `\u0020 | \u0009 | \u000D | \u000A`{.grammar}
#. Letters, which include lower case letters(Ll), upper case letters(Lu),
titlecase letters(Lt), other letters(Lo), letter numerals(Nl) and the
- two characters \\u0024 ‘$’ and \\u005F ‘_’, which both count as upper case
+ two characters \\u0024 ‘\\$’ and \\u005F ‘_’, which both count as upper case
letters
#. Digits ` ‘0’ | … | ‘9’ `{.grammar}
#. Parentheses ` ‘(’ | ‘)’ | ‘[’ | ‘]’ | ‘{’ | ‘}’ `{.grammar}
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ decomposes into the three identifiers `big_bob`, `++=`, and
_variable identifiers_, which start with a lower case letter, and
_constant identifiers_, which do not.
-The ‘$’ character is reserved
+The ‘\$’ character is reserved
for compiler-synthesized identifiers. User programs should not define
-identifiers which contain ‘$’ characters.
+identifiers which contain ‘\$’ characters.
The following names are reserved words instead of being members of the
syntactic class `id` of lexical identifiers.