[sc34wg3] Semicolon or not semicolon

[Dmitry]

On Tuesday, January 29, 2008, at 07:48AM, "Lars Heuer" <heuer at semagia.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>While writing this
><http://www.isotopicmaps.org/pipermail/sc34wg3/2008-January/003602.html>
>I wondered if we cannot make the semicolon optional.
>In fact, the semicolon makes technically no sense, but if someone
>wants to write a semicolon everywhere, we could allow it.
>
>I assume in the following example that "{" "}" for topic blocks is
>replaced by the period ".":
>
>         paul - "Paul McCartney"
>           isa person;
>           isa musician
>           works-for(The-Beatles)
>           works-for(The-Wings);
>           homepage: http://www...
>         .
>
>The colon for occurrences has to be normative, though.
>         
>Is that an acceptable compromise?

I would prefer it this way:

paul
     ~ o:Paul_McCartney;
     # <http://....#Paul_McCartney>;
     - "Paul McCartney";
     first_name - "Paul";
     last_name - "McCartney";
     isa person, musician;
     o:works-for    [o:The-Beatles - "The Beatles], o:The-Wings;
     o:homepage  <http://www...>
.


Or

paul ~ o:Paul_McCartney; # <http://....#Paul_McCartney>; - "Paul McCartney"; first_name - "Paul";  last_name - "McCartney"; isa person, musician; o:works-for   [o:The-Beatles - "The Beatles], o:The-Wings; o:homepage  <http://www...>.

Dmitry