Re: Aliasing separators (Re: grammar triviality with '&&')

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 9,  4:33pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} What happens to white space certainly seems to be central to the things
} Bart is most worried about --- both what goes into and what comes out of
} the alias.  Possibly soluble with enough checks and management of
} token expansion.  Are we motivated enough to look into the necessary
} code to improve this?  We still have the option of backing it off
} before anyone outside the mailing list notices.

My vote (perhaps obviously) would be to back it out, fix the issue with
"{" / catenation and the history, and then consider whether aliasing of
other tokens can be re-introduced.