----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Worden"
<worden.lee(a)gmail.com>
I ask because I've been producing editsection-like
links for a long time
in our extension project, with commas in between - for example a LaTeX
document will come with a list of links like "[log, pdf, dvi]". Maybe
I should switch to using pipes instead of commas.
I'm not sure if there's a *policy* answer, but I would say that my opinion
is that a pipe is a better separator than a comma for two reasons:
1) Commas have a left-affinity (which pipes don't) and
2) Commas expect a following space (whereas you can do pipes with or without
as long as you make the same choice on both sides).
Therefore, for this category of separator, I think pipes would be less
jarring to readers -- at least English readers.
Cheers,
-- jra
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