On 6/1/20 8:53 AM, Corentin via SG16 wrote:
>
> The standard doesn't specify what the new-line character is.
> According to Unicode, the following codepoint sequences should be
> considered lines terminators
Could you please include a reference?
>
> LF: Line Feed, U+000A
> VT: Vertical Tab, U+000B
> FF: Form Feed, U+000C
> CR: Carriage Return, U+000D
> CR+LF: CR (U+000D) followed by LF (U+000A)
> NEL: Next Line, U+0085
> LS: Line Separator, U+2028
> PS: Paragraph Separator, U+2029
>
> Similarly, the standard defines "white spaces" loosely as "blanks,
> horizontal and vertical tabs", however there are more white space
> characters in unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character
>
> What I would like to do:
>
> * Define new-line and white-spaces as grammar term, with an explicit
> list of codepoint sequences.
> * In phase 2, replace all characters which represent a line
> termination with Line Feed (which is reverted later for raw string
> literals). this would notably fix https://wg21.link/cwg1655
> * It would also help to mandate that trailing whitespaces are removed
> in phase 2
>
> Does that make sense to anyone ?

Without thinking too hard about it, this seems like a reasonable direction.

I'm not fond of adding an additional case of reversion for raw string
literals though.

Tom.