[Egyptian] proposal 2016-07-22

[Michael Everson]

I use different words and different glyphs for these. 

But you have END, SEPARATOR, and EMPTY which we did not discuss in Cambridge.


> On 22 Jul 2016, at 18:05, Mark-Jan Nederhof <mn31 at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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