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README.md

Lexical conventions

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Lexical elements

The first stage of processing a source file is the division of the source file into lexical elements.

A lexical element is one of the following:

The sequence of lexical elements is formed by repeatedly removing the longest initial sequence of characters that forms a valid lexical element.