[en] Why is "&" not tagged as CC?

[tiff (Christopher Blum)]

In informal texts people tend to use “&” as a substitute for “and”. Why is “&” not tagged as “CC” like “and” is?
@Mike_Unwalla do you have an opinion?

[tiff (Christopher Blum)]

Example where this causes a false alarm:

The rule HE_VERB_AGR has an exception for “CC” but not for “&”

[Mike_Unwalla]

Why is “&” not tagged as “CC” like “and” is?

Don’t know.

I added a POS for the ampersand character )[en] Add POS CC for '&' · languagetool-org/languagetool@76fa6fa · GitHub).