Re: A BibTeX grammar

Tend to agree - if I’m not mistaken the ‘separator’ operator position is a comparatively recent addition (and perhaps a pragma for the fuller form - term,(sep,term)*) so it could benefit from a clearly distinguishable form…..

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> On 21 Feb 2022, at 11:06, Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> I was thinking last night, and one way would be to make repetition
>> with separators different, by doubling the sign:
>> 
>> numbers: number++(",", " "*).
>>   words: word**s.
> 
> Given how easy it was to make the “missing comma” mistake, and how hard
> it was to find, I think this might be a good idea.
> 
> What do other folks think?
> 
>                                        Be seeing you,
>                                          norm
> 
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> Norm Tovey-Walsh
> Saxonica

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