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ShortBOL - A abstract language implementing the SBOL Data Model.
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Expansion brackets. #25

Open MattyCrowther opened 4 years ago

MattyCrowther commented 4 years ago

Expansion and Parameter list contains the same brackets (). Might be useful to change expansion brackets to either: {} [] <> WhiteSpace.

lgrozinger commented 4 years ago

I like the whitespace idea, because I think that non-programming users are in general a little put-off by an over-abundance of brackets.

We'd have to figure out in the parser how to separate the argument list from the body of the expansion though, since shift/reduce conflicts would inevitably result from an 'any whitespace' rule. This probably isn't trivial, but it could be done by adding some backtracking logic to the parser.