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This follows #1274 , #1325 , #1328 , #1336 , and #1347 . This has miscellaneous changes to the design overview without a particular focus.

Also adds some missing keywords to our list of keywords.

Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
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Lexical conventions

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Lexical elements

The first stage of processing a source file is the division of the source file into lexical elements.

A lexical element is one of the following:

The sequence of lexical elements is formed by repeatedly removing the longest initial sequence of characters that forms a valid lexical element.