On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, DeRobertis wrote:
> At 4:00 PM +0200 on 6/22/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>
> > Scott, what do you say? Anthony? You think you can add this?
>
> Myabe we'd best define in specific terms what this is. But I don't like the
> idea pf custom item words at all. It's sort of like declaring variables as
> a certain type -- we'd have to manage to remember what these delimiters
> are, and it'd get to be a pain when they become complex.
I concur.
> I think I like:
>
> put item <expr> [delimited by <expr> or <expr> or...] [to [item] \
> <expr> [ delimited by <expr> or <expr> or...]] of <expr> into \
> container
>
> Which does not look all that bad to parse.
Nor to me, although the above description seems wrong to me because
it allows:
put item 3 delimited by ":" to item 2 delimited by "/" of whatever
I'd prefer simply:
item <expr> [to <expr>] [delimited by <expr> or <expr> or...] of <expr>
Regards,
Scott
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