- From: Robie, Jonathan <jonathan.robie@emc.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:47:37 +0000
- To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- CC: Public Joint XSLT XQuery XPath <public-xsl-query@w3.org>
I have two concerns about the chevron proposal.
1. I think we should use characters that anybody knows how to type. Most programmers probably don't know how to type a chevron on their keyboard, and the way to do this depends on the OS and keyboard. After all, smart quotes are a convenience feature, and it's only convenient if they are easy to type. This isn't something that "tooling" is likely to fix for most of us in the near future.
2. I don't like the fact that « is the opposite of « and you have to count the number of «'s in a nested construction to know whether a given « introduces a string literal or an expression.
«««can»you««guess»which«are»««strings»versus»»element«tests»»»
Even with added indentation, it can be confusing.
«
«
«can»
you
«
«guess»
which
«are»
«
«strings»
versus
»
»
element
«tests»
»
»
Jonathan
Received on Monday, 14 September 2015 13:48:28 UTC