Paths are mostly parsed without taking whitespaces into account, e.g. `std :: vec :: Vec :: new ()` parses successfully, however, there are some special cases involving keywords `super`, `self` and `Self`. For example, `self::` is considered a path start only if there are no spaces between `self` and `::`. These restrictions probably made sense when `self` and friends weren't keywords, but now they are unnecessary.
The first two commits remove this special treatment of whitespaces by removing `token::IdentStyle` entirely and therefore fix https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/14109.
This change also affects naked `self` and `super` (which are not tightly followed by `::`, obviously) they can now be parsed as paths, however they are still not resolved correctly in imports (cc @jseyfried, see `compile-fail/use-keyword.rs`), so https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29036 is not completely fixed.
The third commit also makes `super`, `self`, `Self` and `static` keywords nominally (before this they acted as keywords for all purposes) and removes most of remaining \"special idents\".
The last commit (before tests) contains some small improvements - some qualified paths with type parameters are parsed correctly, `parse_path` is not used for parsing single identifiers, imports are sanity checked for absence of type parameters - such type parameters can be generated by syntax extensions or by macros when https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10415 is fixed (~~soon!~~already!).
This patch changes some pretty basic things in `libsyntax`, like `token::Token` and the keyword list, so it's a plugin-[breaking-change].
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