[SG16-Unicode] Fwd: New Core Issue: [lex.name]/3.2 under-specifies "uppercase letter"

Corentin corentin.jabot at gmail.com
Mon Oct 28 18:55:46 CET 2019


I would like to point out that afaik, although a rare event, the uppercase
property of codepoints is not guaranteed to be stable and can change in
either way from one Unicode version to the next.

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 18:32 JF Bastien <cxx at jfbastien.com> wrote:

> I’d like to have a stronger motivation that this. Do we ever intend to use
> non-ascii as reserved names? If so, we should wait to resolve TR31 and not
> make any change because doing what you propose closes a door. If not (ie
> we’ll only ever use A-Z to start reserved names) then your change is
> exactly what we’ll want
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 9:39 AM Mathias Stearn <
> redbeard0531+isocpp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it just uppercase letters in the basic source character set, or
>> anything considered an uppercase letter in the universal character set
>> after phase 1 transcoding and universal-character-name resolution? Or is
>> there some other definition of uppercase?
>>
>> I have a slight preference for restricting to just A-Z so that it doesn't
>> require humans or tools to consult the unicode data tables to decide if an
>> identifier is safe to use.
>>
>> Proposed resolution:
>>
>> Replace [lex.names]/3.2 with:
>>
>> Each identifier that contains a double underscore __ or begins with an
>> underscore followed by an uppercase <del>letter</del><ins>*nondigit*</ins>
>> is reserved to the implementation for any use.
>>
>>
>> Alternatively we could either create a new grammar production for
>> uppercase *nondigit*s, or just say something like "one of the universal
>> characters in the range 0041-005A (A-Z)"
>>
>>
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