As a programmer I'm very concerned about ! as a line terminator. Consider this abc fragment:
abc abc|!trill!abc abc| abc abc | - all well and good. Now add two line terminators (presumably not illegal) abc abc|!trill! abc abc|! abc abc |! abc abc| how does a program distinguish between the !trill! command and a command ! abc abc|! which may be a command for a feature which it knows nothing about? Are we to assume that double line terminators are illegal - but then what about abc abc|!a!b!bc abc| - which is the command, !a! or !b! and which ! is the line terminator (and if you say there is no command !a! or !b! then I say "but there might be in a future expansion of the special characters".) Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
