Separator for multiple authors on command lines (was: Can we separate authors with ; instead of \n please?)

[Ben Finney]

ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net writes:

> With this in mind, I'm wondering whether it would make searching
> authors easier if they were separated by ; instead of a newline
> internally.

A semicolon would cause problems with command-lines; ‘;’ is a command
separator.

Perhaps comma (‘,’) is better as a delimiter, since it's such a common
delimiter for other multi-value arguments on command lines.

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Ben Finney