[css-syntax] 4.3.11. Consume a name?

[tabatkins]

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Hiep, H.A. said:

The specification reads:

``Repeatedly consume the next input code point from the stream:''

And whenever the code point does not match the two clauses mentioned below,

``anything else
Return result.''

I believe that this description wrong. The current code point should be reconsumed, before returning the result, and preventing that a non-matching symbol from the input stream is eaten by the algorithm. A counter-example:

#ident{
}

would then first consume the "#", which triggers the Consume a name'-algorithm. It then continues with the name code point'-path, all the way up to "{". Here it returns result, while "{" is still consumed.

If I may suggest a better wording, it would be:

``anything else
Reconsume the current input code point and return result.''

See:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-syntax-3/#reconsume-the-current-input-code-point
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-syntax-3/#consume-a-name

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Tab Atkins said:

The /TR version is, as usual, out of date. This issue has been fixed
in the Editors Draft at
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-syntax/#consume-name for quite a while.
^_^

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Hiep, H.A. said:

Thank you for your reply! In the future will I check the current draft before sending in my suggestions.