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Definition of Identifier

By David Bolton, About.com

Definition: An Identifier is a name for a variable, type, type member, template, class, function, namespace etc and is usually limited to letters, digits and underscores. Certain words are reserved and cannot be used as identifiers such as new.

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Namespaces allow multiple definitions of the same identifiers without causing conflicts.
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