- From: John Lumley <john@saxonica.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 11:53:45 +0000
- To: Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>
- Cc: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, public-ixml@w3.org
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:
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>> numbers: number++(",", " "*).
>> words: word**s.
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> 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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