On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:59 AM Jens Maurer <Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 22/09/2021 17.46, Corentin via SG16 wrote:
> > I added "A whitespace is the longest sequence of characters that could
> constitute a whitespace." in [lex.whitespace]. I believe this is true for
> all sort of whitespaces, including comments and
> > it takes care of both line-breaks and comments
>
> "Longest sequence" sounds like all of this:
>
> /* blah */ stuff */
>
> is one comment, but in reality, it is one comment plus garbage "stuff */".
>

The grammar already precludes consuming the first */ as part of a longer
comment. So the "longest sequence" presented above cannot constitute a
*whitespace*.


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> Jens
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