Re: (Un)expected syntax error

On 07/31/2013 03:56 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> 
> On 30/07/2013, at 8:57 PM, Jan Wielemaker wrote:
>> Yes.  volatile is a high priority operator.
>> Putting it in '...' doesn't stop that (which I
>> still think is a mistake
> 
> Jan, you know the reason for that.  It's so that we can
> use things like 'Det' as operators, which would not
> otherwise be legal.

Yes, I know.  I also know that I've never seen such an
operator in the wild and I've seen dozens of people trying
to get rid of operator properties using single quotes.
So, I think the wrong choice was made ...

> Possibly the most surprising thing here is volatile
> being an operator at all.

Its in the dynamic, multifile category of predicate
property declarations.

	--- Jan