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2024-12-19

369. Are new/delete identifiers or preprocessing-op-or-punc?

Section: 5.5  [lex.pptoken]     Status: drafting     Submitter: Martin v. Loewis     Date: 30 July 2002

5.5 [lex.pptoken] paragraph 2 specifies that there are 5 categories of tokens in phases 3 to 6. With 5.8 [lex.operators] paragraph 1, it is unclear whether new is an identifier or a preprocessing-op-or-punc; likewise for delete. This is relevant to answer the question whether

#define delete foo

is a well-formed control-line, since that requires an identifier after the define token.

(See also issue 189.)