Re: Status of issue #30 (Implied LWS)

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Yes; we looked at disallowing it, but implementations that support  
> folding do already support whitespace-only lines. We don't want to  
> make them non-conforming. Also, it made the ABNF really, really ugly.  
> Really.
> 
> We're considering discouraging producing all-whitespace continuation  
> lines in prose. Thoughts?

All continuation lines are discouraged; maybe that could be worded a
little more strongly.  With the word "discouraged" :-)

-- Jamie

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