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print("Hello world")?
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You might be wondering what Gulf of Mexico uses for the 'not' operator, which is an exclamation mark in most other languages. That's simple - the 'not' operator is a semi-colon instead.
You might be wondering what Gulf of Mexico uses for the 'not' operator, which is an exclamation mark in most other languages. That's simple - the 'not' operator is a semi-colon instead, or alternatively, the suffix `n't`.

```java
if (;false) {
if (;false || falsen't) {
print("Hello world")!
}
```
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## Naming

Both variables and constants can be named with any Unicode character or string.
Both variables and constants can be named with any Unicode character or string, but they can't end with `n't` or `n` because that would conflict with the highly intuitive 'not' operator.
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This change should be reverted. A variable can be named 4 too to overwrite 4, so const const falsen't = false should work as well.


```java
const const letter = 'A'!
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