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| author | Graydon Hoare <[email protected]> | 2010-08-17 14:13:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Graydon Hoare <[email protected]> | 2010-08-17 14:48:00 -0700 |
| commit | 766b91d88b19aa0c2030e6d96c3fd8f4a7255891 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a1d33f6a7fe4d4047c1eb25d8e876a713c6557d /doc | |
| parent | Re-xfailed tests because Windows is still complaining. (diff) | |
| download | rust-766b91d88b19aa0c2030e6d96c3fd8f4a7255891.tar.xz rust-766b91d88b19aa0c2030e6d96c3fd8f4a7255891.zip | |
Add support for a reserved-words list and reserve the various not-supported-but-plausible IEEE datatypes.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/rust.texi | 38 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/rust.texi b/doc/rust.texi index 63181f88..fcfb6499 100644 --- a/doc/rust.texi +++ b/doc/rust.texi @@ -599,6 +599,7 @@ Unicode characters. * Ref.Lex.Ignore:: Ignored characters. * Ref.Lex.Ident:: Identifier tokens. * Ref.Lex.Key:: Keyword tokens. +* Ref.Lex.Res:: Reserved tokens. * Ref.Lex.Num:: Numeric tokens. * Ref.Lex.Text:: String and character tokens. * Ref.Lex.Syntax:: Syntactic extension tokens. @@ -636,7 +637,7 @@ token or a syntactic extension token. Multi-line comments may be nested. Identifiers follow the pattern of C identifiers: they begin with a @emph{letter} or @emph{underscore}, and continue with any combination of @emph{letters}, @emph{decimal digits} and underscores, and must not be equal -to any keyword. @xref{Ref.Lex.Key}. +to any keyword or reserved token. @xref{Ref.Lex.Key}. @xref{Ref.Lex.Res}. A @emph{letter} is a Unicode character in the ranges U+0061-U+007A and U+0041-U+005A (@code{'a'}-@code{'z'} and @code{'A'}-@code{'Z'}). @@ -728,6 +729,35 @@ The keywords are: @tab @code{be} @end multitable +@node Ref.Lex.Res +@subsection Ref.Lex.Res +@c * Ref.Lex.Res:: Reserved tokens. + +The reserved tokens are: +@cindex Reserved + +@sp 2 + +@multitable @columnfractions .15 .15 .15 .15 .15 +@item @code{f16} +@tab @code{f80} +@tab @code{f128} +@item @code{m32} +@tab @code{m64} +@tab @code{m128} +@tab @code{dec} +@end multitable + +@sp 2 + +At present these tokens have no defined meaning in the Rust language. + +These tokens may correspond, in some current or future implementation, +to additional built-in types for decimal floating-point, extended +binary and interchange floating-point formats, as defined in the IEEE +754-1985 and IEEE 754-2008 specifications. + + @node Ref.Lex.Num @subsection Ref.Lex.Num @c * Ref.Lex.Num:: Numeric tokens. @@ -785,6 +815,10 @@ only two floating-point suffixes: @code{f32} and @code{f64}. Each of these gives the floating point literal the associated type, rather than @code{float}. +A set of suffixes are also reserved to accommodate literal support for +types corresponding to reserved tokens. The reserved suffixes are @code{f16}, +@code{f80}, @code{f128}, @code{m}, @code{m32}, @code{m64} and @code{m128}. + @sp 1 A @dfn{hex digit} is either a @emph{decimal digit} or else a character in the ranges U+0061-U+0066 and U+0041-U+0046 (@code{'a'}-@code{'f'}, @@ -2024,7 +2058,7 @@ The signed two's complement word types @code{i8}, @code{i16}, @code{i32} and @end ifhtml respectively. @item -The IEEE 754 single-precision and double-precision floating-point types: +The IEEE 754-2008 @code{binary32} and @code{binary64} floating-point types: @code{f32} and @code{f64}, respectively. @end itemize |