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Re: [tap] "ok 1 description" vs "ok 1 - description"

Michael Peters <mpeters@plusthree.com> Wed, 04 February 2009 14:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tap] "ok 1 description" vs "ok 1 - description"
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Michael G Schwern wrote:

> Finally, if the parser always strips the optional dash it should always come
> out the same whether the producer uses a leading dash or not EXCEPT for one
> contrived case.  When a description deliberately is supposed to have a leading
> " -".  I can only think of a fairly contrived example, but if you wanted to
> output, say, Morse code "- ... -.-", and your producer doesn't know about the
> optional dash, it would say:

What about a description that begins with a negative number? Like say:

   -1 < 0 ?

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Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP

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