Re: Colon in index items

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Karl Berry wrote:

>       (b) You could have more than one colon in a row (happens a lot in C++, 
>           for example).
> 
> Sorry, I don't see the problem.
> 
> * foo::bar:  nodename.
> will still get parsed correctly, seems to me.  The .* will swallow
> everything up to the very last : ... as long as the nodename does not
> have any colons in it.

Two colons in a row signal the end of the menu item and the beginning of 
text that the reader ignores.  If you can have two colons as part of the 
entry itself, how do you tell which one is the ``real'' end?

>     The possibility of parsing references from the end was raised in the past 
>     (IIRC).  It works better in some cases, but fails in others.
> 
> Specifically?

I will have to dust off my memories...