Someone wrote:
> >> According to the BNF definition
> >> http://www.norbeck.nu/abc/abcbnfx.htm
> >> The bang is NOT a line terminator

Jack Campin wrote:
> Which was a booboo on the part of whoever let that through.
> Supporting the existing corpus of tunes is *alone* more
> important than allowing an inessential idiosyncratic extension
> in one application.

The BNF definition in abcbnfx.htm was an attempt from my side to 
describe the (at that time, 1997) proposed extensions in BNF. It 
does contain the ! as a line breaker, but only at the end of a line, 
not in the middle of it. I hadn't understood until today that it was 
actually allowed in the middle of a line too.
BTW, nobody reacted to that specification for more than five years, 
so whose is the booboo?
Now I've actually made a new, much more strict BNF specification 
of Abc 2.0, see separate mail.


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