Unabasheded laziness and the phone edit

[Fairlight]

>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Tony Ryder shouted:
> 
> PHONE  .\ <"("> N N N <")[!-!] "> <" "> N N N <"-"> N N N N | phone1
> PHONE1 .\ N N N <"-"> N N N N

'Cept that's not actually uniform for data entry.  It lets you enter a
numbers all run together, a space, -or- a dash at the area code breakpoint,
but forces only a dash or run-together numbers at the prefix break point.
Doubt it matters much, but asymmetrical things drive me nuts.  I think it's
an OCD thing.  :)

So since 5.0.7 bailed on the . before the \ would someone please tell
me what it does?  It wasn't in Bob's documentation.  (I had to look up
the actual edit sin tax from scratch, as I haven't written an edit since
1995--literally!)  I know 5.0.7 didn't like it.

mark->
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