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[gram.key] Replace 'context-dependent keywords' with 'names' #6837

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\pnum
\indextext{keyword}%
New context-dependent keywords are introduced into a program by
New names are introduced into a program by
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And function and variable declaration are different? In what respect?

I think this entire paragraph should just be removed.

@zygoloid , do you have an idea what this does here?

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I think this is trying to describe the so-called lexer hack, whereby the grammatical interpretation of the program depends on the result of name lookup. I don't think this really gets there for me, though, and it'd be more useful to say that an identifier is only a foo-name if name lookup finds a foo, analogous to this.

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@Eisenwave Do you want to try that out?

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This would be better left to someone who understands this lexer hack better. I'm not confident that I can get the wording right.

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@zygoloid , we already say that the identifier in a class-head introduces a class-name. We might lack a bit of wording for template-name, but that's a core issue.

\tcode{typedef}\iref{dcl.typedef},
\tcode{namespace}\iref{namespace.def},
class\iref{class}, enumeration\iref{dcl.enum}, and
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