On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, David Webber wrote:
> Forgive me if I have missed any other suggestion along the following
> lines but could we not define the syntax (something like)
>
> U:! newline
> U:! flag
>
> in the header to define whether ! means a newline or a !pp! type
> flag. This would enable different writer to use either convention
> for future abc files as they wish.
>
> One could be the default for the future (and I'd prefer the latter
> as it is more generally useful) but people should be encouraged to
> make it explicit either way. If absent, software would have to try
> and cope with a best guess.
>
> Just an idea. Guido?
my opinion counts nothing, or at least much less than developers'. Apart
from that, I think a better solution would be to consider '!' a newline if
not followed by 0-9A-Za-z; a flag otherwise. From a developer's
perspective, this should be very easy to implement.
My .02! (newline)
Guido =8-)
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