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  3. /Slice Keywords

Slice Keywords

The following identifiers are Slice keywords:

boolexceptionlongstring
byte
extends
module
struct
class
false
Object
throws
const
float
optional
true
dictionary
idempotent
out
Value
double
int
sequence
void
enum
interface
short

Keywords must be capitalized as shown.

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