- From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:34:19 -0400
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu
<kanghaol@oupeng.com> wrote:
> (13/04/05 21:27), Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> An alternative (a la Smalltalk) would be to declare that any
>> two-character sequence of DELIM characters -- that is, ASCII
>> punctuation excluding ,;:()[]{} -- is a single token. That
>> would be future-proof, but we'd have to audit the existing grammar
>> carefully to make sure it doesn't do anything it shouldn't.
>
> You'll have to exclude * from DELIM then. Because there are *|* and
> *.class. Otherwise, it sounds good. Are there other situations like this?
That's inconvenient because *= is already considered one token. Oh
well, it's not like this grammar is a shining model of internal
consistency anyway.
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