Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2023 12:49:14 -0400
Thank you for sharing this.
Would you be willing to put together a short paper that proposes
allowing $ in identifiers in C++?
Tom.
On 7/5/23 12:27 PM, Hubert Tong wrote:
> We adopted, in Varna, a paper that adds $ to the basic character set.
> The week after, the C committee decided (for the C23 DIS) that $ can
> be used within identifiers (including in the initial position).
>
> We should consider keeping C and C++ in sync.
>
> Note that we already have examples of u"text", etc. where identifier
> non-digits form the initial portion of non-identifier pp-tokens.
>
> -- HT
>
Would you be willing to put together a short paper that proposes
allowing $ in identifiers in C++?
Tom.
On 7/5/23 12:27 PM, Hubert Tong wrote:
> We adopted, in Varna, a paper that adds $ to the basic character set.
> The week after, the C committee decided (for the C23 DIS) that $ can
> be used within identifiers (including in the initial position).
>
> We should consider keeping C and C++ in sync.
>
> Note that we already have examples of u"text", etc. where identifier
> non-digits form the initial portion of non-identifier pp-tokens.
>
> -- HT
>
Received on 2023-07-05 16:49:15