Re: Lout parsing

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Sun, February 18, 1996 at 09:53:31 (-0600), Peter da Silva wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Lout parsing
>
> What's wrong with using different symbols for the two different kinds of
> period? It's not so often that you use a dot other than at the end of a
> sentence, why not \. it?

Of course!  It's not the whitespace's fault -- it's the punctuation's!

Thanks for that bit of insight Peter!

So, how about it?  We use some form of escaped punctuation character
when we don't want it to indicate an end-of-sentence?  Is there any
existing practice doing this that we can draw upon?

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