Re: Proposed change to skel representation

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 10:39, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> Up to this point I'm -0. I have no problem reading the current
> representation

That I can accept...

> > ("svndiff" 0 1a)

> This part won't work, though. We need to maintain the ability
> to have zero-length atoms.

... but this is bogus. ":0:" would be the zero-length atom.

I'm proposing a very simple change here. There are already implicit
atoms and explicit (counted) atoms. Right now implicit atoms start a
letter and explicit atoms start with a number. What I'm proposing is:

  Phase 1: Implicit atoms start with a letter
           Explicit atoms start with a colon
           Atoms starting with a number are treated as explicit atoms
            for backward compatibility, when reading

  Phase 2: Implicit atoms start with a letter or number
           Explicit atoms start with a colon

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Received on Mon Jul 29 16:49:15 2002