- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:24:02 +0200
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tuesday 2012-10-23 13:26 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > After discussing this with fantasai, I'm fine with her preferred > solution - treating parenthesized groups the same as a function, where > if the grammar isn't recognized, it's treated as false rather than a > syntax error. My one worry about this is that it might make it harder for authors to test what they've written. For example, with this rule, (not (X)) and (X) are always inverses, even if (X) is a syntax error. While this perfect symmetry is nice, it might make errors harder to notice. Do we think enough authors look at things like browser error consoles while developing that this isn't an issue? Or that the property of making errors more noticeable isn't actually helpful to authors anyway? I'm inclined to agree we should make this change; I just wanted to bring up this point. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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