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authorAdriaan Moors <adriaan.moors@typesafe.com>2014-03-11 16:44:50 -0700
committerAdriaan Moors <adriaan.moors@typesafe.com>2014-03-11 16:44:50 -0700
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SI-4583 UnicodeEscape does not allow multiple backslashes
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@@ -11,11 +11,18 @@ to Scala mode, and literal characters ‘c’ refer to the ASCII fragment
In Scala mode, _Unicode escapes_ are replaced by the corresponding
Unicode character with the given hexadecimal code.
-```
-UnicodeEscape ::= \{\\}u{u} hexDigit hexDigit hexDigit hexDigit
+```
+UnicodeEscape ::= ‘\‘‘u‘{‘u‘} hexDigit hexDigit hexDigit hexDigit
hexDigit ::= ‘0’ | … | ‘9’ | ‘A’ | … | ‘F’ | ‘a’ | … | ‘f’
```
+<!--
+TODO SI-4583: UnicodeEscape used to allow additional backslashes,
+and there is something in the code `evenSlashPrefix` that alludes to it,
+but I can't make it work nor can I imagine how this would make sense,
+so I removed it for now.
+-->
+
To construct tokens, characters are distinguished according to the following
classes (Unicode general category given in parentheses):