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		jampekka 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Human-Oriented Markup Language You could have it like in Python tuples where 1 is a scalar and 1, is a tuple.

xg15 14 days ago [–]

True, but I think that wouldn't be any more intuitive or error safe than the :: syntax.

renox 13 days ago | [–]

Error safe, the : or :: I kind of doubt it, I think that finding a typing mistake (two : instead of 1) won't be easy..

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