Re: Alternative syntaxes for the prolog

"Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org> writes:


> ... iXML already uses punctuation differently to other syntaxes i know
> of, so i’m not sure i accept that argument. If semicolon can be "or"
> then % can introduce metadata.

Let the record show that at this point I nudged Liam with my elbow and
whispered perhaps a bit too loudly "Prolog, and van Wijngaarden
grammars".  (Meaning, they both use ';' to separate disjuncts.)

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