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<title>Notes</title>
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- User-defined type names cannot begin with the underscore character
- (<literal>_</literal>) and can only be 62 characters
+ User-defined type names should not begin with the underscore character
+ (<literal>_</literal>) and should only be 62 characters
long (or in general <symbol>NAMEDATALEN</symbol> - 2, rather than
the <symbol>NAMEDATALEN</symbol> - 1 characters allowed for other
names). Type names beginning with underscore are reserved for