Re: [Ogdl-core] Extraneous Commas and Parens

[Rolf V. <rol...@er...>]

didge wrote:

> For me, this is a robustness issue.  Being tolerant is great, but not at the
> cost of robustness.  But, being new here, I'm not sure what exactly what
> being tolerant means to you.
> 
> Being tolerant, to me, means that users are free to use white space,
> indentation, grouping, quoting or blocking as it makes sense for their needs
> and tastes.

For me tolerance and robustness in this case are related. I prefer a
parser that doesn't exit in the mentioned cases. That doesn't exclude
a 'strict' option, as you propose (in your case the default).

> Disallowing extra punctuation in my humble opinion does not make OGDL any
> less tolerant according to my definition and makes OGDL more robust because
> OGDL without extra punctuation is easier to read and can't mask any
> potential errors.

One thing are extra commas, and another is () and ((a)). I think these
are part of the language as is (((1+2))) in a math expression. Anyway,
let the parsers evolve and w'll see what is more coherent.

--
Rolf.