[Egyptian] proposal 2016-07-22

[Mark-Jan Nederhof]

Dear all,

We adapted our proposal. Please find it in:

https://mjn.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/tmp/unicode2.pdf

We have responded to the criticism about brackets and prefix operators. We have gotten
rid of all prefix operators and replaced them by infix operators. As for brackets, it is well
possible to get rid of them too (not entirely, there are still the cartouches),
but the price to pay for this is added complexity of the syntax due to needing several
copies of each primitive with different operator precedence, perhaps three or four. 
It is outlined in Section 9 how this would be done. This adds to the complexity
that already exists, after the prefix operators were removed; have a look at
appendix A and see whether you can verify the grammar is unambiguous.

There are no names on the proposal. That is partly because not everyone from
TLA/Ramses/St Andrews has had a chance to look at it yet, and partly because
anyone is welcome to have their name added if they feel they contributed and
subscribe to the content.

Mark-Jan