Naming on TrustLang

Naming of objects

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As names of objects and names of data types you can use letters, digits and underscores in any combinations, provided that the first character of the name is not a digit.

A name cannot consist of a single underscore, since this is a special term used for service purposes.

To avoid name collisions you can use a namespace and a modular code structure, which TrustLang supports simultaneously. Overriding and overloading of functions are allowed.

Code hierarchy

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Namespaces

TrustLang supports namespaces; the separator, as in C++, is the double colon ::. A namespace can be specified both for an individual identifier and for a whole code block.

Unlike namespace in C++, namespaces in TrustLang serve not only to organize code into logical groups and to avoid name conflicts: a name in which a namespace is explicitly specified refers to static objects (memory for which is allocated at compile time).