> I chose "+" since it was the most intuitive delimiter that wasn't a
> special character on most shells. If we used ";" or "|" they would
> either have to be escaped or require the command to be in quotation
> marks, which are both annoying to use as a command line argument. If
> you can think of a better character I would be interested to hear, but
> I don't think those are better.

I see. "+" is ok.

> I appreciate the feedback. This will certainly lead to improvements of
> the format. The next alpha release should be coming this year so I
> don't think it will be as long as you think until it is in a stable
> release. The contributors to this project are hobbyists so we can't
> dedicate 40+ hours a week for fast releases of high quality. Thank you
> for your understanding and if you want to help work on anything you
> can always submit a patch :)

Patches spend years on this mailing list. 5.2.0 release was 7 years ago. There 
is no reason to think anything is coming soon.

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