- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 22:38:27 -0800
- To: David Robinson <drtr1@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Somewhat of a detail, this, but anyway:
> In section 5.4.1 Accept, you say:
> float = < ANSI-C floating point text representation,
> where (0.0 < float < 1.0) >
> What, precisely, do you mean by this? You don't give a reference, so I could
> imagine the following:
[imagination deleted]
Yeah, I never liked this myself -- it's a leftover from the old spec.
I would prefer
float = ( "0" [ "." 0*3DIGIT ]
| ( "." 0*3DIGIT )
| "1" [ "." 0*3("0") ] )
Would that break any existing systems?
....Roy T. Fielding Department of ICS, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
<URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>
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