Thanks, Hubert! Applied with a little editorial discretion.

Tom.

On 7/12/26 8:54 PM, Hubert Tong via SG16 wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks for scribing!
>
> For the following:
> Hubert: For those few who perhaps use |$| in the preprocessor in C and
> C++ code, until recently, their code was formally ill-formed.
> Hubert: I don't have a lot of sympathy for UB in such strange uses.
>
> I suggest:
> Hubert: For those few who perhaps rely upon |$| being standalone
> non-identifier tokens in the preprocessor in C and C++ code, until
> recently, their code was formally ill-formed.
> Hubert: I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who rely on the
> exact manifestation of UB in such strange uses.
> [later observation by Hubert]: Due to longstanding divergence between
> C and C++, the "formally ill-formed" (and corresponding UB) was only
> true for C++ but not C. As an extended character in [at least certain
> vintages of] C, |$| always could have been a standalone preprocessing
> token or one of the implementation-defined /identifier-nondigit/
> characters.
>
> For the following:
> Hubert: Use of |$| as a macro name would be impacted.
>
> I suggest:
> Hubert: [context lost/unclear] Use of |$| as a macro name would be
> impacted.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -- HT
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM Tom Honermann via SG16
> <sg16_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Minutes have been published for the 2026-07-08 SG16 meeting here
> <https://wiki.isocpp.org/2026_Telecons:SG16Teleconference2026-07-08>.
> For those that attended, please review and offer corrections.
>
> Tom.
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