- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 10:02:26 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 02:00 PM 21/05/97 -0700, Andrew Layman wrote: >I just asked several parser writers about the implementation difficulty >of single versus double colons. They said that single are easier and >will lead to simpler, smaller parsers. I also favour a single delimiter simply for reasons of economy... but with respect, no parser architecture that I have ever heard of would lead to an implementation whose size or complexity would differ significantly because of a delimiter consisting of two characters rather than 1. -T.
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