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spec: typographical inconsistency in character literals #47368

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rillig opened this issue Jul 24, 2021 · 2 comments · Fixed by ferrmin/go#113
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spec: typographical inconsistency in character literals #47368

rillig opened this issue Jul 24, 2021 · 2 comments · Fixed by ferrmin/go#113
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@rillig
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rillig commented Jul 24, 2021

What did you do?

What did you expect to see?

  • The Unicode code points around the text "alert or bell" should be sorted.
  • The Unicode code points around the text "alert or bell" should either use uppercase or lowercase hexadecimal digits.

What did you see instead?

  • There ordering of the code points is not apparent. It is neither alphabetical nor by code point nor "vertical first, then horizontal".
  • U+000D is uppercase, U+000b is lowercase.

These inconsistencies are not critical in any way, I just wondered whether there was some reason for this inconsistency and for ordering the code points in exactly this way.
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The sorting is alphabetical by the single-character escape.

But I agree that the capitalization ought to be consistent.

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Change https://golang.org/cl/337234 mentions this issue: spec: use consistent capitalization for rune literal hex constants

@dmitshur dmitshur added this to the Go1.17 milestone Jul 25, 2021
@dmitshur dmitshur added Documentation NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. labels Jul 25, 2021
@dmitshur dmitshur changed the title ref/spec: typographical inconsistency in character literals spec: typographical inconsistency in character literals Jul 25, 2021
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