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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Why not reversed order? So its syntax could be
>
> [ "-" ] FIELD [ ":" [ "version" | "v" ] ]
>
> It fits better to current f-e-r syntax where modifiers are after the
> colon. And it avoids the possibility that someone adds field "version"
> and we can't tell what "version" is what.

I think that reads well.