On Feb 14, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Alex Buckley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Strictly speaking, the semantic rule is unnecessary because InputCharacter is > DEFINED to exclude the CR and LF line terminators! But the semantic rule > makes the intent very very clear. Writing rules in this form also prevents > the spec from becoming a soup of statements that are more than just > observations but less than full-throated assertions.
That makes sense. > Anyway, the draft was very useful, thanks! Glad to hear it! — John P.S. I posted another version that takes a slightly different tack on the restriction of "cannot begin with a backquote". It basically lifts the whole design of Markdown code quotes. http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/jls/raw-string-pages-v5.pdf <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/jls/raw-string-pages-v5.pdf>
