> From [log in to unmask] Thu Jul 17 04:53:07 1997
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:40:45 +0100
>
> please excuse my techiness, but surely this isn't true, parsing
> the likes of
>
> [organization|organisation]
>
> is absolutely trivial. Surely the key point is that we should
> make the use of this easy for the USER, not worrying about
> adding one line to the language parser!
>
The problem is that its a line here, a line there, and an enormous
deployment barrier due to complexity of deployment and a maintenance
headache for the future. So, a line in the parser for this, for that,
for every language whose proponents feels it necessary to be
represented in the elements themselves....
These terms are tokens... the ease of use should be supported in the
mapping of tokens to appropriate labels in a user-interface, not in
the parsers (one expects many of them), that need to be maintained in
a consistent manner.
stu
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