[mercury-users] Unable to parse single character comma

Daniel Patterson lists.mercury at dbp.mm.st
Wed Nov 16 14:06:32 AEDT 2011


Hi,

On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Julien Fischer wrote:
> You need to escape the comma, otherwise the parse thinks it's the
> conjunction operator, i.e. put the literal in parentheses
> 
>   Char = (',')
> 
> then it should be fine.

Thanks! Works perfectly.

Why are the single quotes not creating a literal character without the parenthesis? ie, what valid syntax could include ',' where the comma was the conjunction operator?
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