- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:45:02 -0700
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org> wrote: > Le 23/05/2013 00:32, Tab Atkins Jr. a écrit : >> The WG's preliminary conclusion is that consistency is good, so we >> should tweak the grammar to also allow whitespace in the "- n" case as >> well. I can accept that (it's one more clause). Thoughts? > > If we allow whitespace between a sign and a bare "n", for consistency we > should also allow whitespace between a sign and a signless A, which the > grammar in the current ED does not seem to allow. For example: > > - 2n > + 3n+1 At the latest f2f, the WG decided that it wasn't a burden to require no whitespace between "+" and "n", and so I've amended the spec accordingly. (Or rather, I'm trying to at the moment - preprocessing errors are preventing me from uploading a draft right now, but they'll be solved shortly.) This removes any possibility of having to handle more annoying cases in the name of "consistency". ~TJ
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