Re: My philosophy

Gordon Sande wrote: 


Richard E Maine wrote:

In article <nospam-9C98FF.15442025052005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Richard E Maine <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


In article <1199vgoq509m1a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Gary L. Scott" <garyscott@xxxxxxx> wrote:


I would have thought that starting with a colon would be better so that anything
with a colon ending in space would be a label (no spaces in labels). I'm pretty sure I've seen that style of label before


:label

Are there parse issues with that?


There certainly are in fixed source form, where spaces aren't significant. Of course, one could make the rules different for fixed source form, but that's a complication.

(Or one could just blow off fixed source form, which wouldn't bother me much, but then you've got a bigger debate with some people.)



If I had thought about it for more than 10 seconds before posting, it would have occurred to me that you don't need a delimiter in fixed source form at all because the label is already in dedicated columns. 


Except for the bothers with comments and continuation. My suggestion is
to leave the FIXED format label field for numbers as a least fuss
solution in the expectation that fixed format is a sleeping dog to left
alone. (Maybe it is dead but it is not worth telling the difference!)


Yes, no more accommodation of fixed source form unless really trivial and obvious (and someone actually wants it).


But I just saw "blank delimiter", which set off my automatic alarm for "problem in fixed source form" before I realized that labels are special in terms of fixed-source parsing.



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