User blog comment:DrCeasium/HAN: better definitions/@comment-5029411-20130706031818/@comment-7484840-20130706071237

I had already developed a hierarchical system of separators that were very similar to the things you are describing, and could be taken a very long way, but I removed them because I realised it wouldn't get me as far as I wanted, and really was just a vast amount of diagonalisation.

In case you want to know, it was a system of naming separators using multidimensional arrays, that, without using the multidimensional arrays, would have required a unbelievably huge amount of other separators to represent.

Putting it that way, that still actually seems like a good idea. I'll look back over them to decide how good they really were.