perl-unicode

Re: In-Band Information Considered Harmful

1998-10-27 10:08:16
On Oct 26,  3:20pm, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
That's not necessarily appropriate for a metadata system that's more
complex than simple inline markup.  Metadata may be a tree or some
other such structure.

I don't follow.  They are semantically identical to your \m{ } and
\M{ } examples:

   \m{foo}  ===  <foo>
   \M{foo}  ===  <!foo>

I would have thought both syntaxen were capable of identifying metadata
of arbitrarily complex structures.

Or have I missed something important?


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