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Re: [ddlm-group] Close quotes not followed by whitespace

Dear Colleagues,

   Please do not misunderstand my position.  I recognize that I cannot
win on the issue of the handling of the reverse solidus in CIF2, and
believe we should move on.  That does not mean that I think that
this is a sound decision for the future of CIF2, just that it is
the COMCIFS decision for the definition of CIF2.  We have other
issues to discuss.

   Regards,
     Herbert


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  Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science
    Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121
         Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769

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On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, James Hester wrote:

> You are correct that we have agreed that CIF2 treats a close quote followed
> by non-whitespace as a syntax error.  A not inconsiderable quantity of bytes
> and time were spent reaching this decision.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Joe Krahn <krahn@niehs.nih.gov> wrote:
>       CIF2 no longer skips close-quotes that are not followed by
>       whitespace. I
>       assume that close-quotes still need trailing whitespace, and
>       that it is
>       simply a syntax error for a close quote followed by
>       non-whitespace.
>
>       Therefore, it should be possible to allow CIF1 input for
>       backwards
>       compatibility by accepting these invalid close-quotes on input.
>       That
>       should help minimize conflicts with adopting CIF2. The only
>       input that
>       would be misinterpreted would be a quote character written as
>       """, most
>       software will have written as '"', using the opposite quote
>       character.
>
>       So, this:
>
>       ;\
>       ;\
>       ;
>
>       is just a syntax error in CIF2, or can be accepted as a
>       line-folded ";"
>       in CIF1.
>
>       Joe
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