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Fix grammar documentation wrt Unicode identifiers #50790

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@bstrie bstrie commented May 16, 2018

The grammar defines identifiers in terms of XID_start and XID_continue,
but this is referring to the unstable non_ascii_idents feature.
The documentation implies that non_ascii_idents is forthcoming, but this
is left over from pre-1.0 documentation; in reality, non_ascii_idents
has been without even an RFC for several years now, and will not be
stabilized anytime soon. Furthermore, according to the tracking issue at
#28979 , it's highly
questionable whether or not this feature will use XID_start or
XID_continue even when or if non_ascii_idents is stabilized.
This commit fixes this by respecifying identifiers as the usual
[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*

The grammar defines identifiers in terms of XID_start and XID_continue,
but this is referring to the unstable non_ascii_idents feature.
The documentation implies that non_ascii_idents is forthcoming, but this
is left over from pre-1.0 documentation; in reality, non_ascii_idents
has been without even an RFC for several years now, and will not be
stabilized anytime soon. Furthermore, according to the tracking issue at
rust-lang#28979 , it's highly
questionable whether or not this feature will use XID_start or
XID_continue even when or if non_ascii_idents is stabilized.
This commit fixes this by respecifying identifiers as the usual
[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*
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I... thought we killed src/doc/grammar. It's not really used, but I'm not opposed to fixing it. Thanks!

@bors: r+ rollup

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📌 Commit ce0b7cc has been approved by steveklabnik

@bors bors added S-waiting-on-bors Status: Waiting on bors to run and complete tests. Bors will change the label on completion. and removed S-waiting-on-review Status: Awaiting review from the assignee but also interested parties. labels May 17, 2018
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Fix grammar documentation wrt Unicode identifiers

The grammar defines identifiers in terms of XID_start and XID_continue,
but this is referring to the unstable non_ascii_idents feature.
The documentation implies that non_ascii_idents is forthcoming, but this
is left over from pre-1.0 documentation; in reality, non_ascii_idents
has been without even an RFC for several years now, and will not be
stabilized anytime soon. Furthermore, according to the tracking issue at
rust-lang#28979 , it's highly
questionable whether or not this feature will use XID_start or
XID_continue even when or if non_ascii_idents is stabilized.
This commit fixes this by respecifying identifiers as the usual
[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*
bors added a commit that referenced this pull request May 18, 2018
Rollup of 10 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - #50387 (Remove leftover tab in libtest outputs)
 - #50553 (Add Option::xor method)
 - #50610 (Improve format string errors)
 - #50649 (Tweak `nearest_common_ancestor()`.)
 - #50790 (Fix grammar documentation wrt Unicode identifiers)
 - #50791 (Fix null exclusions in grammar docs)
 - #50806 (Add `bless` x.py subcommand for easy ui test replacement)
 - #50818 (Speed up `opt_normalize_projection_type`)
 - #50837 (Revert #49767)
 - #50839 (Make sure people know the book is free oline)

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@bors bors merged commit ce0b7cc into rust-lang:master May 18, 2018
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