Re: Proposal to change definition of 'name' (forbid final .)

"C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> writes:
> and replace them with:
>
>             @name: namestart, namefollower*, ('.', namefollower*)*.

Did you mean this:

             @name: namestart, namefollower*, ('.', namefollower+)*.

or am I confused?

>        -namestart: ["_"; L].
>     -namefollower: namestart; ["-·‿⁀"; Nd; Mn].
>
> or alternatively:
>
>             @name: namestart, (namefollower ** '.').
>        -namestart: ["_"; L].
>     -namefollower: namestart; ["-·‿⁀"; Nd; Mn].

The second alternative seems equivalent and simpler, to my eyes.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica