Re: Renaming

For the benefit of the list…

I accidentally mailed my question to Steven only (new mailer, different key bindings). He’s now replied to my private message…

> Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> writes:
>> Since we have agreed on a change that means that certain XML names are no longer possible in serialisations,
>
> Apologies, can you remind me what we’ve disallowed recently?

The change is “.” at the end of a name.

>> and an additional
>>
>>  name>"string"
>>
>> it means we unbind the syntax of names used in the grammar from those used in the serialisation.
>>
>> (This also means we *could* simplify the definition of names used in grammars).
>
> I don’t see much benefit to moving away from XML names for grammar symbol names. I’m afraid it will just cause confusion by requiring renaming (which is already a complication in the grammar for users).

He also said:

We've just done it. But I'm OK with keeping what we now have as is. 

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica