[cpp.line] Simplify specification of line directives #8354
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This change set addresses a variety of concerns to produce a simpler and clearer specification for line directives. It makes no functional changes, but changes words sufficiently to require a Core review. A motivation behind this PR is to simplify the changes for the proposal to allow line directives before the global module fragment, https://wg21.link/P3868.
The line directive is given its own grammar production that formally states what used to be described in text restrictions and interpretations of the generic sequence of preprocessing tokens.
The other issue to address is that the specification refers to a string-literal that is not present in the grammar. However, the constraints on that string literal are sufficient to replace that quoted s-char-sequence in the grammar production with string-literal.