Whitespace
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Overview
The exact lexical form of Carbon whitespace has not yet been settled. However, Carbon will follow lexical conventions for whitespace based on Unicode Annex #31. TODO: Update this once the precise rules are decided; see the Unicode source files proposal.
Unicode Annex #31 suggests selecting whitespace characters based on the characters with Unicode property Pattern_White_Space, which is currently these 11 characters:
- Horizontal whitespace:
- U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION (horizontal tab)
- U+0020 SPACE
- U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
- U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
- Vertical whitespace:
- U+000A LINE FEED (traditional newline)
- U+000B LINE TABULATION (vertical tab)
- U+000C FORM FEED (page break)
- U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN
- U+0085 NEXT LINE (Unicode newline)
- U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR
- U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR
The quantity and kind of whitespace separating tokens is ignored except where otherwise specified.
References
- Proposal #142: Unicode source files