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authorSom Snytt <som.snytt@gmail.com>2015-06-29 07:57:33 -0700
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SI-6810 Spec reflects literal parsing literally
Emphasize that literal parsing accepts Unicode escapes as if they were escaped. In particular, a newline represented by its Unicode escape does not terminate the line in the middle of a literal.
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@@ -57,11 +57,12 @@ floatType ::= ‘F’ | ‘f’ | ‘D’ | ‘d’
booleanLiteral ::= ‘true’ | ‘false’
-characterLiteral ::= ‘'’ (printableChar | charEscapeSeq) ‘'’
+characterLiteral ::= ‘'’ (charNoQuoteOrNewline | UnicodeEscape | charEscapeSeq) ‘'’
stringLiteral ::= ‘"’ {stringElement} ‘"’
| ‘"""’ multiLineChars ‘"""’
-stringElement ::= (printableChar except ‘"’)
+stringElement ::= charNoDoubleQuoteOrNewline
+ | UnicodeEscape
| charEscapeSeq
multiLineChars ::= {[‘"’] [‘"’] charNoDoubleQuote} {‘"’}