Re: Design specifications, and/or lack thereof; was:RE: Release notes:term for bugs

[Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net>]

Emily Berk wrote:

> 
> I asked if it would be possible at some point to unify the syntax and was told that the >parser had been altered so radically to accommodate the mess that it would require a total >re-write of the parser.  And, since users had already been using these tags for a while, we >would still have to support all the tag formats for years afterward.


In tough times, that sounds like a good annuity, so long as they are
being paid for support.  Sorta
-- 
Peter

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