Re: Repetition syntax

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

> On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 22:22:33 +0000
> Bethan Tovey-Walsh <bytheway@linguacelta.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't see a problem with using "&" as an operator,
> i'd rather keep & free in case interleaving is later wanted.

I think adding interleaving is fairly unlikely. There’s a real paucity of punctuation characters already, I’m not enthusiastic about reserving some of them speculatively. In the (I think unlikely) event that we want to add interleaving, that’ll be a tomorrow syntax problem. :-)

> Use of & would also make it slightly harder to embed iXML in XML.

*Shrug*. Mixing one language into another is often tricky.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

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