Re: Further thoughts on delimiter choices

On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 10:29, Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com> wrote:

> I still don’t really understand the motivation for allowing delimiter
> choices (“:” or “=” and “;” or “|”) when we could just pick two. I kind
> of like “;”, but I suspect that “=” and “|” is intuitively more
> consistent than “=” and “;”.

+1 Norm. I find it confusing and certainly agree that for options vert
bar is much more familiar.

I would consider this as an annoyance for many users, misreading a semicolon
as some other marker, hence a brake on uptake.

regards



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