On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:21:42PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
On 09/11/2007, Soo Reams <soo(a)sooreams.com>
wrote:
I think work on a clean grammar and a slick
parser are among the most
important discussions I've ever read on here, and it's good to see it
going somewhere. In particular I think the business with apostrophes is
horrible and I have no idea how it ever got passed as intuitive.
Some of the apostrophe stuff is important in languages other than
English, e.g. Italian, where a construct like l'''Uomo'' being
parsed
as l<i>Uomo</i> is expected and useful behaviour. Stuff like this in
the parser has good reason to be there. Take care when deciding which
bits are useful.
And, as has been pointed out one of the last 3 times we did this,
''
is a valid punctuation character in at least one language.
Cheers,
-- jra
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