On 29 Nov 2014 00:26, "Lukas Sommer" <sommer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Okay. I’ll try a summary: > > We have the choise between two systems: > > – semicolon system > > – alt_name_1 system
I added support for alt_name_1 because this kept coming up and people were actively abusing alt_name:1 because it happened to work (the :1 actually ends up interpreted as a language and while this could be fixed the combination of language and array using the same syntax adds a lot of complexity and confusion). ; is just a bad way of doing it without the ability to escape ; and universal editor support (which at this point is probably impossible). It also makes storage much more complex since it breaks key=>value pairing. I'd say it was a bad idea and just about anything is better. alt_name[1] that colin suggested is interesting and potentially unambiguous. It also has the advantage of making sense to a coder and not requiring special support in editors for magic escape characters. -- Brian
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