On 19.01.2016 19:25, Colin Smale wrote: > So how do you indicate a missing/empty value in the middle of the list? > Does "a;;b" mean a single value of "a;b" or does it mean three values > "a", "" and "b"? > > The "lanes" tag family uses a different delimiter ("|"), sometimes > together with a semicolon to make a kind of 2-d array. A double pipe > ("||") indicates a missing value there. Wouldn't it be nice if we were > consistent?
no, that is a complete different situation. The lane-family use parameters (if you like it or not), so every position has a meaning. The semicolon is for (unordered) lists, an empty value doesn't make any sense there.
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