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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
Actually, AO3 will let you make a story with both '/' and '&' in the same ship tag. With or without space around either. Yay for freeform tags, I guess?
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Well, yeah, you can do it. I'm just saying I (and most people) would really have no idea what that means. If I actually ran across X&Y/Z, I think I would have to mentally parse it as X&(Y/Z), aka, X being friends with the couple Y/Z. Alternately, it means (X&Y)/Z, as in, Z is in a relationship with X, and in a relationship with Y, and X and Y are just friends?
There does not appear to be any standard defined order of operations there. This obviously would cause havoc with *sorting* the tags. (Actually, even with a defined order of operations, it would get complicated.)
However, as combining multiple separators in the same tag doesn't really seem to exist in the wild (Probably because no one would understand it.), I was just suggesting that FFF just give up if it sees two different types, instead of trying to figure it out. (Although it could still run the names past regexps to normalize them.)