- From: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 00:59:31 -0700
- To: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
- Cc: Sebastien Lambla <seb@serialseb.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Zhong Yu wrote: > > One must wonder, the problem of conditionals appears to be very easy. > We can have a simple model and a simple procedure, that succinctly and > precisely defines behaviors in any scenario. > I've suggested changing the document order around and trimming the wording down, this also seems like issue 241: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/241 > > Why does the spec instead "beat around the bush", going very > roundabout ways, only setting some constraints on some scenarios? Are > readers supposed to solve the riddles to learn the underlying model? > Nonetheless, I didn't find it all that hard to write working code, and I'm not much of a coder. Coming up with alternate spec language is harder. -Eric
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