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.
- d.