A "con" for using a colon, is that similar to the comma, the colon occurs
in formal shemas now, as in this LC Subject Heading:
United States. President (1961-1963 : Kennedy)
aimee
At 1:28 PM -0600 12/2/97, Weibel,Stu wrote:
>here is a list of the possibilities suggested to date.
[snip]
> colon [:]
>
> arguments pretty much the same as for semicolon;
> slightly less common in data than above alternatives,
> but also slightly less intuitive for common usage.
>
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