Hi Alex, I forgot to state my original reason for raising this question:
> The _whole_ dilemma arised, if you remember, arose from the fact that > we _want_ to use the dot in symbol names and numeric atoms, without > needing to escape it. Without that, the dot would be a pure > meta-character and everything would be simple. My objection is that having dot as a meta-character makes things more complicated;-) Any meta-character introduces special cases and increases complexity I think. Cheers, Tomas -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picol...@software-lab.de?subject=unsubscribe
