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On 09.05.12 19:21, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Wed, 09 May 2012 11:51:22 -0500, Jerrid Kimball wrote:

>> or dare I suggest:
>>
>> <multiply operands="31 56" />  <!-- multiplication is commutative after
>> all -->
>>
>> or have I gone too far?
>
> I am afraid yes. You are just one step away from<f>"32*56"</f>, and two
> from (God save us for such an unreadable gibberish): 32*56! (:-))

I would guess that the latter expression means, to many,
32 to the power of 56 factorial.

The first literal looks much more like a regular language, because
of the quotes: prefix "3" followed by an arbitrary number of "2"s, suffix "56".

The point is that a few words will resolve all ambiguity *immediately*.
Most desirable when documents like LRM ISO/IEC 8652 talk about Ada,
C, Cobol, and Fortran at the same time.