On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 01:20, Steve Downey via SG16 <sg16_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> My priorities, possibly not exhaustive
>
> 1) be able to have sensible discussions about the encodings of literals in
> the standard
>
> 2) use the same terminology we would use in describing Library facilities
> today
>
> 3) fix the hand waving in raw literals and any other place that in
> practice compilers access the logical source file.
>

I don't believe compilers do that in practice - the only observable
difference between raw literals and non raw literals in practice
is how universal-character-name *escape sequences* are handled (as well as
line splicing), the encodings involve are / should be the same
and the wording should be a better job at describing this intent as too
many destructive operations are done in phase 1 and 2


>
> 4) be able to avoid "standard" terms that aren't actually in the standard,
> such as 'execution encoding', by having actual terminology.
>
> 5) remove the conversion to universal-character-name while keeping that as
> an escape sequence. Use notional code points instead, which cleans up
> accidentally forming a ucn.
>
+1000

Strongly agree with all of that!


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