[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #1595: Is *) allowed as upper boundary for a parameter range?

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#1595: Is *) allowed as upper boundary for a parameter range?
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  Reporter:  eschnett  |       Owner:  sbrandt            
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  assigned           
  Priority:  minor     |   Milestone:  ET_2015_05         
 Component:  Cactus    |     Version:  development version
Resolution:            |    Keywords:  postrelease        
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Comment (by rhaas):

 Good catch with the step.

 Comments:
   * I would disallow quotes (we disallow them for parameter values already
 and no one uses them, not even Kranc anymore)
   * do we really want to introduce ":"? There is already "*" as a
 shorthand for "*:*"
   * something like "1::2" would be allowed, however the parser will break
 on this (or at least it used to) b/c it hard-codes the sequence "::" as
 the separator between range and description. It should not be allowed in
 the range (since it currently is not).
   * I would not introduce a whole new plethora of options. Preferably we
 should do like python does: there should be one way of doing things and it
 should be obvious. Multiple context sensitive convenient (but only for the
 experts who remember them all) options is something I would like to avoid.
   * just to be sure: this regex cannot be the only one since it disallows
 single numbers or stars which are used and documented

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