From: dmhills{at}attglobal.net (Don Hills)

In article , "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:
>Hopefully those lawmakers will refrain from defining other punctuation marks

>WELLINGTON (AFP) - New Zealand's lawmakers came up with a definition of the
>colon that will have dictionary founder Samuel Johnson turning in his grave
>while delighting the most pedantic.
>
>Parliament is consolidating tax law and heard complaints from experts that
>they were uncertain what that particular punctuation mark meant in the
>proposed legislation.

This is tax law, not English.
It may help to consider it as a programming language. In that context, the
item made perfect sense...

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