[Doc-SIG] Re: Oscar - pre-announcement over on Types-SIG

[Tony J Ibbs (Tibs)]

> Tony J Ibbs (Tibs) <tony@lsl.co.uk> wrote on 2001-08-22 04:47:
> > Hmm - do we care about the distinctness (or not) between::
> >
> >     term : classifier
> >
> > and::
> >
> >     word: some text

David Goodger wrote:
> I would prefer to require spaces on both sides of the colon, to
> avoid accidents in cases like::
>
>     Mission: Impossible
>         A cheesy 60's TV show and lame 90's movie.

Sorry - I wasn't precise enough.

What I was trying to say was:

Do we care if we have two forms with different meanings which only
differ in whether the colon is preceded by a space or not - i.e., that::

    term : classifier

has a radically different meaning than::

    term: classifier

(the former is a term and classifier, the second is just a word followed
by a colon).

Tibs (still not too fussed about it, though)

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