Identifier Ignorable characters in keywords and literals

[Pravin Jain]

Thanks for the clarifications.
But let me point out that the Identifier Ignorable characters are
ignored not only in keywords but also in the three literals "true",
"false" and "null"

Thanks and Regards,
Pravin

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 11:11 PM Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> // Adding Dan explicitly
>
> On 9/21/2020 10:39 PM, Pravin Jain wrote:
> > The following code compiles and executes successfully.
> >
> > public cl\u0001ass Identifier\u0002Ignorable {
> >      public sta\u0003tic vo\u0004id ma\u0005in(String[] args) {
> >          System.out.println("Hello world");
> >      }
> > }
> >
> > The JLS mentions about the use of Identifier-Ignorable characters
> > being allowed in an Identifier, but using those in a keyword, or
> > literal has not been mentioned. From the specification, one does not
> > gather that these characters will be ignored when used inside a
> > keyword or a literal.y Is this error of compiler or the JLS has missed
> > to clarify this point?
>
> It would be legitimate for JLS 3.3 to acknowledge that some `\uxxxx`
> Unicode escapes represent UTF-16 code units which denote "ignorable"
> code points; such UTF-16 code units are _not_ included in the sequence
> of Unicode input characters resulting from this translation step.
>
> Dan, is it possible to make this small clarification in the JLS ch.3
> update for contextual keywords?
>
> The text in 3.8 -- "Two identifiers are the same only if, after ignoring
> characters that are ignorable, the identifiers have the same Unicode
> character for each letter or digit." -- would be slightly redundant in
> calling out ignorable characters, but it should not be changed because
> it states a clear, easy-to-understand rule for Java programmers looking
> to go beyond ASCII in their identifiers.
>
> Alex



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