- From: Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:58:40 +0000
- To: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
- Cc: ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>
"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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