> I happen to like ".." a lot, since it is natural and has been used in ASN.1
> and some programming languages. So picking something new for ranges
> will confuse a lot of people who will be seeing ABNF for the first time.
>> I'm also concerned that changing to "-" for ranges may create confusion
> with "-" in rule names (IPP uses rule names for attribute names and
> attribute value names)
It's not a huge deal as far as coding is concerned -- the immediately
preceding context suffices to distinguish "-" in identifiers from "-"
in ranges -- but I still prefer either ".." or ":" to "-".
Recognizing ".." is no more difficult than distinguishing the two
meanings of "-".
And while I can't think of many other meanings of ".." than to
indicate some sort of range. "-", on the other hand, is quite
overloaded.
Keith