RE:

[Bill Strahm <bill@strahm.net>]

I wonder if this is how Ray Tomlinson felt when he had to select a
seperator... Hmmmm this one doesn't seem to be used for much, lets use it

Bill

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, John Hufferd wrote:

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> What about using the ~ (tittle) symbol.
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> "Julian Satran" <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com>@ece.cmu.edu on 03/21/2002
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> To:    "Rod Harrison" <rod.harrison@windriver.com>
> cc:    ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject:    RE:
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> I was looking at what would be appropriate (and perhaps familiar to
> programmers - double dot is used in Pascal for ranges).  (- or +) may come
> handy later for other things. And BTW double characters are already there
> in addresses.
> We could use semicolon(;) (I for some reason do not like it).
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> So we have 2 proposals:
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> 1) .. (2 votes)
> 2); (1 vote?)
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> The tally is on! (untill tomorrow)
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> Julo
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>       "Rod Harrison"
>       <rod.harrison@windriver.               To:        Julian
>       com>                           Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL,
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>       21-03-02 02:04                         cc:
>       Please respond to "Rod                 Subject:        RE:
>       Harrison"
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>                 I would prefer one character. I don't care what it is, any
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> will do, but having only one there is slightly easier to parse that
> having two.
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>                 - Rod
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of
> Julian Satran
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 5:05 PM
> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject:
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> Dear colleagues,
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> I suggested using : (colon) to separate values in a range.
> Unfortunately :
> is overused (in addresses and in names).
> I suggest we use the (old) two dots (..) to mark a range.
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> Comments?
> Julo
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