- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 00:55:49 -0800
- To: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Another extremely small point about this stuff:
> If there's already a NOT operator in the expression syntax, why do we
> have to start off with a negative in the header ("UNLESS:") itself?
> I don't think it won't make the headers more readable if we don't keep it
> this way.
I must have been in a negative mood at the time. ;-)
Actually, I usually think of preconditions as negative expressions,
which is why I picked Unless. IF is fine too (it even saves 4 whole bytes).
....Roy
Received on Saturday, 2 December 1995 01:08:48 UTC