Neal Gafter

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LDM looked at this again today and we don't think this rises to the level of deserving a language change.

@svick A source file that successfully compiles using language version 6 on a recent compiler should also compile using an older version of the compiler in the same language version....

@ghord If you'd like the definition of identifier to change, please lobby for that change in the Unicode spec rather than the C# spec. We are unlikely to depart from...

This championed issue is not a wish list of changes to the spec. It is about implementing what is already in the spec. If you want to propose *changes* to...

The ECMA standard for C# refers to the latest Unicode specification, not 3.0, and does not restrict the character set to those encodable in UTF-16 without surrogates. We intend to...

We do not expect to devote resources to this, as we have not had any actual outside users reporting that this would be helpful to them. However, we would consider...

We would need the core clr bug https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/6843 fixed before we could do this.

My intent is to bring up this one request to the design group. It sounds like @CyrusNajmabadi will bring up the others in that discussion.

This is specified in https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/csharp-8.0/patterns.md

In Roslyn, any nontrivial parser state is recorded in the green nodes. If the state isn't the same during reparsing, the node is "crumbled" to its constituent parts (one level...