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Add commentary to clarify the rule about . at the beginning of expression statements #4171

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion working/3616 - enum value shorthand/proposal-simple-lrhn.md
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Expand Up @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ We introduce grammar productions of the form:
| 'const' '.' (<identifier> | 'new') <arguments> -- shorthand object creation
```

We also add `.` to the tokens that an expression statement cannot start with.
We also add `.` to the tokens that an expression statement cannot start with. *Note that the number `.123` does not start with the token `.` because all four characters are recognized as a single token. So we can still have expression statements starting with such a number.*

That means you can write things like the following (with the intended meaning as
comments, specification to achieve that below):
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