Re: ACTION 2023-05-09-d: Steven to produce a discussion document for renaming (issue #13)

>       -naming: name, s, (">", s, rename, s)?.

This has drawn my attention to the fact that we allow whitespace after
marks. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that used. I was going to suggest:

    -naming: name, (">", rename, s)?.

to make the binding between the name and the rename “tighter”. But that
would allow an odd looking inconsistency:

  @  S>T = "t" .

so maybe it’s not a good idea. I have slight reservations about
introducing XML markup characters into iXML, but I don’t see an
obviously better US ASCII character. Perhaps we should give up on just
using punctuation everywhere? Would a keyword like “as” or “named” work?

  nmonth as month = "0"?, d | "1", ["0-2"] .

But maybe that’s inconsistent too. I’m not opposed to “>”.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica