Ah, I wouldn't trouble yourself Jim. I don't remember clearly but it was most likely a combination of laziness and ignorance on my part.
As post-hoc rationalization, I note that the colon is used as the sequence operator in the R stats system, in which I do a lot of scripting, so the syntax seemed natural to me. Whether it does to anyone using my language (jiffle image scripting) I've no idea. Michael On 14 November 2011 12:19, Jim Idle <j...@temporal-wave.com> wrote: > I am never sure why this causes so many people so much confusion. > Especially when I published a cut and paste answer to it. Care to say why > you thought it easier to abandon the idea? I am genuinely interested in > the answer. > > Jim > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: antlr-interest-boun...@antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest- >> boun...@antlr.org] On Behalf Of Michael Bedward >> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 4:36 PM >> To: Jiwon Seo; antlr-interest@antlr.org interest >> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Using range operator (INT .. INT) >> >> When dealing with the same issue a while ago I decided it was so much >> easier to cheat and use ":" rather than ".." to indicate a range :) >> >> Michael >> >> List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest >> Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your- >> email-address > > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest > Unsubscribe: > http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to il-antlr-inter...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to il-antlr-interest+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en.