http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6131 --- Comment #11 from Bogdan Butnaru <bogdanb+w3c+bugzilla@gmail.com> 2009-07-09 00:32:08 --- (In reply to comment #10) > It feels rather error-prone to me: even if it's not technically ambiguous there > would be very similar constructs with very different meanings, resulting in > poor error messages. For example mistyping the ";" as a ":" in > > $a:="fred";if (f($a)) then 1 else 0 > > would not hit an error until the keyword "then" is encountered. I wouldn't be very much concerned about that; it would be more dangerous if a similar case would _not_ trigger an error, however, and I'm not sure there aren't any such cases. (Note that the ws:explicit rule makes your particular example hard to hit in practice: people are used to adding whitespace after a separator like “;”, and they'll usually do it even if they mistype it as “:”.) However, if we decide it's problematic, we can use a different separator, like “#”, “@” or even “$”. Note that this character will be outside the quotes, so we can pick anything that works for our syntax, ignoring whatever format IRIs have. We can also do it in reverse, e.g. if we pick “@” it might make more sense to write « localName@"http://example.com" » (this only works if the separator is not allowed in a localName, of course.) We can also allow constructs like « prefix:localName@"http://example.com" », to specify a default prefix for the QName. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.Received on Thursday, 9 July 2009 00:32:17 GMT
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