Jack Campin wrote:
>Phil Taylor:
>> Do you think that Jim Vint should withdraw the exclamation mark
>> used to mark end of line in abc2win?
>>> Or that if a proposal such as, for example, the !symbol! notation was
>>> adopted into the standard you would be happy to incorperate it into
>>> BarFly?
>> The existing version of BarFly can already deal with it. I don't
>> advertise the fact because I think it's a bad idea.
>
>Whereas Jim's use of the ! symbol is a *good* idea that would fix the
>problem BarFly has with linebreaks if you adopted it. I think you made
>exactly the wrong choice here.
>
I haven't actually made any choice. BarFly can deal with !symbol!
by means of a macro which just converts !symbol! into something it
can understand. It can't deal with "!" (other than by ignoring it)
since you cannot include line breaks in macros. I'd have to change
the code to make it have ! force a line break. I'm not completely
averse to this. If there's enough pressure from users to adopt it
I will do so. I would _far_ rather do that than adopt the !symbol!
syntax officially.
Phil Taylor
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