RE:

[Eddy Quicksall <Eddy_Quicksall@ivivity.com>]

That would be ok for something like an expression parser but our parser
should be very simple minded and it is better if it is not context
sensitive. It is the same idea as "don't use two characters".

Also, the "looks" of it is not very important.

Eddy

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Studenmund [mailto:wrstuden@wasabisystems.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:37 AM
To: Eddy Quicksall
Cc: iSCSI; luben@splentec.com; Rod Harrison; Julian Satran
Subject: RE: 


On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Eddy Quicksall wrote:

> A dash is also used for negative numbers (we don't have any yet but could
in
> the future).

True, but is that a concern here? For a range, you have to have two
numbers with the dash/minus between them. "-number" would not be a
valid range. So even if we ever get negative numbers, ranges should be
readily different.

The only point of confusion would be if we ever permitted algebraic
expressions, when the '-' would look like subtraction. But I think that
would neither be sensible nor likely.

Take care,

Bill