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[relax-ng] Compact syntax proposal: allow redundant , and & and |

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John Cowan <>
Date
2002-07-14T05:30:22+00:00
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[relax-ng] Compact syntax proposal: allow redundant , and & and |
I should like to propose that we allow redundant commas (or vertical bars
or ampersands) just before a right paren, square bracket, or curly brace.
This would allow:

foo = (
	attribute foo1 {text},
	attribute foo2 {text},
	attribute foo3 {text),
	)

bar = element bar {
	element bar1 {text},
	element bar2 {text},
	element bar3 {text},
	}

Allowing such redundant separators makes it easier to maintain lists
by hand.  Perl allows redundant commas and C allows redundant commas
and semicolons in similar circumstances.

-- 
John Cowan       http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        <>
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        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
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