Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Derek Parnell wrote: >> I would not complain if trailing dot and leading dot were disallowed. > > I think the question that should be asked is: would anyone complain if > they were kept? We have bigger rocks to move than that one.
It seems rather disingenuous to complain loudly about '...' used as a separator, but to accept leading/trailing dots without question. I'm sure you remember this list: > 0.....wyda > 0....wyda > 0... .wyda > 0. .. .wyda > 0.... wyda > 0. ...wyda > 0. ....wyda > 0.. .wyda I'm sure you agree that this is a mess. Never mind if any of these token sequences are syntactically valid, this is a mess at the lexical level. If '0.....wyda' is interpreted as the token sequence '0. ... . wyda', then you have bigger things to worry about than whether or not that token sequence is ever syntactically valid. -- Rainer Deyke - rain...@eldwood.com