Hey, Ralph,
Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
|> Yes! Ralph likes it!
|> (Good not to hear any technical objection!)
|
|That's the wrong conclusion to draw. :-) I just didn't see the point
|in picking over the syntax for a string-OR given what I think is the
|bigger issue.
The good news is that "(" then is simply not handled by
do_if_request() but results in a get_number() which then manages
to gobble anything off. As an in fact complete subparser. Nice.
Therefore this entire syntax seems to be taboo and sealed!?.
I think i'll keep the $'a'b'c'a'$ syntax for S-roff, since it's
anyway a pretty performant case-switch-alike thing, and cheaply
implemented.
But what do you think of simply extending this $-prefix extension,
now that it is in the world? As in, e.g.
.if $($'a'b'c'd'a$ || 'a'a')
or (to be even)
.if $($'a'b'c'd'a$ || 'a'a')$
I'm of course speculating on "||" (and why since there is & and
:), and not that i really like (it is not C in the end), but it
seems to be possible without creating a coded nightmare and it
wouldn't change behaviour of existing documents, because of
requiring the trigger character.
I'd be willing to implement the outcome of a discussion of this
(after mdocmx, and i really want to get S-roff working before
that, too)
--steffen
