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Why can an identifier not start with a number?

Ask Time:2009-10-30T01:19:36         Author:user195563

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Why in java (I dont know any other programming languages) can an identifier not start with a number and why are the following declarations also not allowed?

int :b;
int -d;  
int e#;
int .f;
int 7g;

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