RE: restricted use of Dot and DotDot

At 10:14 PM 1/25/2002 +0100, Kay, Michael wrote:

>At one stage our syntax did allow .[predicate] and ..[predicate] but for
>some reason it was reorganised to disallow these constructs, I think as an
>accidental side-effect. My view is therefore that this is a bug, but I would
>need to check with the parsing experts...

This happened when we tried to remove an ambiguity that arose for 
expressions such as "/ * 7".

I agree that this is a bug.

Jonathan