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Re: brackets
- To: kawa at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: brackets
- From: Chris <chris at bitmead dot com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 09:20:00 +1100
>Per's description of the status quo (option 1) was not quite complete.
>The status quo is that square brackets have been advertised (in the
>NEWS) file, as being synonymous with parens, but they aren't quite
>synonymous. That's what makes the status quo nearly as complex as
>option 3.
>
>I think the simplicity you describe would require removing the partial
>support for square brackets as parens.
My understanding of option 1 was that square brackets become
ordinary characters, never usable as parens.