Good catch. That’s definitely a documentation bug. I could see why including it 
in the exceptions makes that sentence appear to read that those are allowed.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jul 23, 2019, at 12:26 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> But "colon" is the default!
> 
> Colin
> 
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, 18:16 Adrien Monteleone, 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’m using 3.6 on MacOS.
> 
> It says, emphasis mine:
> 
> A legal value is any single character EXCEPT letters and numbers, or any of 
> the following strings: “colon” “slash”, “backslash”, “dash” and “period”.
> 
> 
> There are three missing commas in that list, but the intent is still clear. 
> The ‘or’ is extending the list of exceptions beyond just “letters and 
> numbers”.
> 
> 
> It should probably read for clarity and grammar:
> 
> A legal value is any single character EXCEPT letters, numbers, “colon”, 
> “slash”, “backslash”, “dash”, and “period”.
> 
> Thus, you cannot use:
> 
> letters
> numbers
> colon
> slash
> backslash
> dash
> period
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> 
> > On Jul 23, 2019, at 11:39 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 17:18, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >> ...
> >> The tooltip on my Mac version of GC 3.5 specifically includes “dash” as 
> >> one of the legal options.
> > 
> > Same with 3.6 on Ubuntu.  The tooltip says "dash" is allowed.  I guess
> > that is a bug.
> > 
> > Colin
> > 
> 


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