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authorMara Bos <m-ou.se@m-ou.se>2021-06-14 16:46:46 +0000
committerlrh2000 <lrh2000@pku.edu.cn>2021-06-26 23:11:13 +0800
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Improve comments for reserved prefixes.
Co-authored-by: Niko Matsakis <niko@alum.mit.edu>
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diff --git a/compiler/rustc_parse/src/lexer/mod.rs b/compiler/rustc_parse/src/lexer/mod.rs
index f50e8a8db01..b694217b58a 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_parse/src/lexer/mod.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_parse/src/lexer/mod.rs
@@ -500,7 +500,10 @@ impl<'a> StringReader<'a> {
         FatalError.raise()
     }
 
-    // See RFC 3101.
+    // RFC 3101 introduced the idea of (reserved) prefixes. As of Rust 2021,
+    // using a (unknown) prefix is an error. In earlier editions, however, they
+    // only result in a (allowed by default) lint, and are treated as regular
+    // identifier tokens.
     fn report_reserved_prefix(&self, start: BytePos) {
         let prefix_span = self.mk_sp(start, self.pos);
         let msg = format!("prefix `{}` is unknown", self.str_from_to(start, self.pos));