On 04/01/2008, John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin Paul Adams scripsit: > > > That's a very poor excuse, since you can use zero_or_more, which is > > even closer to natural english syntax than zero-or-more (in as much as > > _ resembles as space more). > > Underscore is hard to see and (on the U.S. keyboard at least), hard to > type, being in the digit row and a shifted character to boot.
Besides that, you will have a problem to distinguish the underscore, when everything is underlined (in formatting). There's at least one computer language (and mark-up related) that use that "zero-or-more" convention -- Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). Art -- :: "เอกราช ปลอดภัย เศรษฐกิจ :: เสมอภาค เสรีภาพ การศึกษา" :: -- หลัก 6 ประการของคณะราษฎร :: http://tinyurl.com/34klvq
