[gram.key] Replace 'context-dependent keywords' with 'names' #6837
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jwakely
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| \pnum | |||
| \indextext{keyword}% | |||
| New context-dependent keywords are introduced into a program by | |||
| New names are introduced into a program by | |||
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And function and variable declaration are different? In what respect?
I think this entire paragraph should just be removed.
@zygoloid , do you have an idea what this does here?
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I think this is trying to describe the so-called lexer hack, whereby the grammatical interpretation of the program depends on the result of name lookup. I don't think this really gets there for me, though, and it'd be more useful to say that an identifier is only a foo-name if name lookup finds a foo, analogous to this.
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Fixes #6486.
@jwakely commented that all these declarations introduce "names". That's the wording I am familiar with and find less confusing.
As already noted, the wording "context-dependent keywords" dates back to C++98. I think it's safe to assume that this is simply immature/antiquated wording that's more common in the original standard.