tc39 / tc39/ecmarkup

Should spaces between AO names and arguments be allowed?

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Description

From https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/pull/2574/files#r1235598629, I was surprised that ecmarkup didn't complain about there being a space between the name of an AO and its argument list.

Example: the following spec text didn't cause ecmarkup errors.

1. Set _item_ to ? ToPrimitive (_item_, ~string~).

I wasn't sure if this was another one of those cases of "whitespace is handled by the formatter" like https://github.com/tc39/ecmarkup/issues/536, but the build job complains about some whitespace issues (e.g. trailing spaces at end of line) so I figured I'd file this issue just in case this was the kind of whitespace issue that the build job should be worrying about.

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Start by reproducing the example spec text in ecmarkup and compare its handling with the build job's existing whitespace checks. Determine whether a space between an abstract-operation name and its argument list should be accepted or reported, then add coverage for the chosen behavior and verify the build result.

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Tech stack
typescript
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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