Follow-up Comment #22, bug #67571 (group groff): At 2025-11-17T17:33:08-0500, Dave wrote: > Follow-up Comment #21, bug #67571 (group groff): > [comment #17 comment #17:] >> But the `class` request itself must be able to as well, or >> there's no point having any code referring to nested classes. > > That's a good point. I suspect this is a bit of imprecision on > Werner's part. (I admire the quality of his documentation, but it > does sometimes lack attention to detail.) He explicitly says "classes > can be nested" later in the section, so I think the intent of the > earlier sentence is that only .cflags, besides .class itself, can use > a class.
That's not something I'm looking to disrupt, but I do want the formatter
to diagnose when the input attempts to interpolate a character class in
any other context (meaning, one where doing so "doesn't make sense").
>> Or maybe nested classes don't actually work, and we've been
>> carrying dead weight for 15 years.
>
> I've never tried it so I couldn't say.
Me neither.
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