[GNC] Use of "dash" as a Separator Character

[Colin Law]

But "colon" is the default!

Colin

On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, 18:16 Adrien Monteleone, <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> I’m using 3.6 on MacOS.
>
> It says, emphasis mine:
>
> A legal value is any single character EXCEPT letters and numbers, or any
> of the following strings: “colon” “slash”, “backslash”, “dash” and “period”.
>
>
> There are three missing commas in that list, but the intent is still
> clear. The ‘or’ is extending the list of exceptions beyond just “letters
> and numbers”.
>
>
> It should probably read for clarity and grammar:
>
> A legal value is any single character EXCEPT letters, numbers, “colon”,
> “slash”, “backslash”, “dash”, and “period”.
>
> Thus, you cannot use:
>
> letters
> numbers
> colon
> slash
> backslash
> dash
> period
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>
> > On Jul 23, 2019, at 11:39 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 17:18, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> ...
> >> The tooltip on my Mac version of GC 3.5 specifically includes “dash” as
> one of the legal options.
> >
> > Same with 3.6 on Ubuntu.  The tooltip says "dash" is allowed.  I guess
> > that is a bug.
> >
> > Colin
> >
>
>
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