At 02:45 23/08/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>As for the inconsistent handling of "^", there are only two ways it's
>handled. Normally, it's a literal character, except within items. For
>items, it provides a means of inheriting the notes from the previous level,
>which was intended as a means of minimizing data entry for data file
>writers. This worked quite well for the WFB5 data files and a few others
>from way back.
Indeed, the 40k files use it a lot too.
>In the old days, data file writers had to use ABData. Nowadays, few people
>use it, but it is still valuable in some circumstances. However, since
>ABData uses a tab/carriage-return delimited file structure, it doesn't work
>to embed carriage returns within the data. The semi-colon was used to let
>authors insert appropriate breaks, although some authors refused to bother
>with semi-colens (Hi Colen!),
oi! I didn't refuse, I just forgot
And "semi-colens"? What a horrible thought, there's quite enough of me
already
>That's what has resulted in the less than optimal behaviors with
>semi-colens in AB. :-(
There you go again
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1 = 2, for large values of 1.
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