On Mon, Sep 16, 2013, at 14:32, Tobias Conradi wrote:
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:40 PM, <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
People don't use the term "separated" for that.
Except those that do,
Huh? Surely you're not claiming that the format _actually_ separates them with no space between them. Go ahead and delete every space from your files, see if zic accepts them.
e.g. tz documentation writers that use "any number" instead of "one or more".
I assert that by "number" they meant "natural number" rather than "integer" (or complex number, or rational number, or real number). The fact that it is a number of characters implies it is an integer. The fact that it is a number of characters that separates something implies it is nonzero and positive. "number" by itself is defined by context. No-one would imagine that this includes non-integers or negative numbers or complex numbers. Not even in your wildest fantasies did you claim there may be sqrt(2)+pi*i spaces, even though that is a number.