[lex.literal.kinds] Strike incomplete footnote #8576
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It may be that the notion of literal in C++ and constant in C were at one point close to a 1-1 mapping, but that it not strictly the case any more. C++ has user-defined literals, in C string-literals are distinct from constants, and C specifies enumerators as literals too. Rather thsn clean up the footnote, or make clear that the correspondance is weak, simply strike it.
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I think the times when we needed to highlight differences vs. C in the running text are long gone.
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FYI C2y has also switched to use "literal" via WG14 N3239. |
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It may be that the notion of literal in C++ and constant in C were at one point close to a 1--1 mapping, but that it not strictly the case any more. C++ has user-defined literals, in C string-literals are distinct from constants, and C specifies enumerators as literals too.
Rather thsn clean up the footnote, or make clear that the correspondance is weak, simply strike it.