[patch] 6746458 support for exotic identifiers (identifier superquote)

[Per Bothner]

John Rose wrote:
> The javac frontend should accept any quoted string immediately following 
> '#' (with no intervening space), interpreting normal string escape 
> sequences, and taking the resulting string exactly as the spelling of a 
> normal identifier.  Keywords like 'int' should not be recognized.  
> Strings which risk being illegal at the JVM level must be rejectedi 
> immediately; this simply means rejecting the empty string and strings 
> which contain any of the characters "/.;<>[".

I would expect the compiler just "mangle" those characters, as
discussed in your blog.  Essentially, you're requiring people
to mangle such string by hand.  What's the reason for that?
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