post 0.8 development

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:57:29PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > discussing using something other than ';' as the parameter specifier. 
> > ',' is the alternative, but it might be too common in a filename)
> 
> Yes, a different character would certainly be nice. We could claim it's
> a query and use ? (and rely on the fact most shells by default take globs
> that don't match anything literally). Or we could follow the clearcase
> precedent and use @@.

Surely "," would be ok.

I'd be wary of using "@" as over enthusiastic spam
reducing mail archivers obscure anything containg @.
This severely limited gnuarch mail archives usefulness
for finding archives.

Matt