Re: Newbie Question: Reading older grammar rule code...



Jan Wielemaker wrote:

In old systems, | and ; where the same. Actually quite a few today
systems still support |.

Hi Jan-

Thanks for the history lesson/clarification. It seems as though Quintus
at the very least still supports "|" for disjunction.

Still puzzled why Odette would also use ";" in a couple places in the
code, but I guess stranger things have happened in publication!

Best, Charles

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