On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Mike Taylor wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:41:49 -0400
> > From: "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
> > >     title=(john and smith)
> > I don't think so.  Parens are mandatory around operator triples and
> > quotes are mandatory around terms.
> What?!  I _certainly_ don't remember agreeing to _this_!

This is what I described badly to you and sebastian after the July
meeting.  That parentheses are mandatory around all boolean operator
separated triples, and quotes around search terms.

The quoted search terms mean that =v is a possible relation with no
ambiguity.

Rob

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