On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:47 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

[route outlet0 outlet1 outlet2 outlet3]

Rarely do people have a standalone colon in writing, so this will create a common syntax error.

A "-" dash/minus/hyphen separator would be a much better option than a colon ":" since in normal (English at least) usage, a "-" is separated on both sides with a space.

Can you give some examples of why [pd META] needs multiple-word tags? I mean its nice sometimes, but there are very well established tag interfaces that use space-separated tags. Since this text is in Pd patches, it should follow Pd syntax rules, since Pd users already know them well, unless there is a strong reason to diverge. With only a few exceptions, the function in an object box is the first word in a space-separated list. In a message, the first word of a space- separated list is the selector.

What's more needed is a quoting mechanism. Space-separated tags usually use "two words" quotes to join them. But that's a bigger issue in Pd...

That is for sure something that will happen and will have to be handled. I just ask that we avoid making commas and semi-colons a required part of the data format.

.hc

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