Re: some questions about pragmas, and the arguments as I understand them

If I understand correctly, you’re saying that I’m nitpicking by considering whether comments or pragmata are related hierarchically or not? It’s been one of the main threads running through this debate so far: Steven thinks pragmata are a subtype of comment; others disagree. Michael’s 5a,b,c distinction is also largely based on making this distinction. If it’s nitpicking, it’s nitpicking that appears to be important to several members of the group.

Regarding the delimiter, I thought we’d already come to a cautious agreement on using “{…}” for comments and “{[…]}” for comments directed to the processor?

And you’re quite right, my suggestion doesn’t take into account the differences in placement between comments and pragmata. So that structure wouldn’t work, after all.
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Dr. Bethan Tovey-Walsh 
Myfyrwraig PhD | PhD Student CorCenCC 
Prifysgol Abertawe | Swansea University 
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> On 3 Feb 2022, at 09:37, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 at 09:25, Bethan Tovey-Walsh <accounts@bethan.wales> wrote:
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>> Is it reasonable to posit a 5d. - that comments and pragmata are both subtypes of inline out-of-band information? This could lead to a representation in the grammar along these lines:
>> 
>> oob : “{“, S*, (comment; pragma), S*, “}”.
>> comment : whatever.
>> pragma : “[“, S*, pragma-name, pragma-data?, S*, “]”.
> 
> Nitpicking Bethan ( which is super, which sub I mean).
> I'm -1 on using "{" though - we've argued this many times, not from
> the syntax view, simply the human perspective?
> 
> I'm sure Steven could re-write that the re-use oob as an OR statement though...
> if (only if?) the placing of comments / pragmas can occur in the same
> place in the grammar, which
> from memory I don't think is the case?
> 
> regards
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