- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:21:50 +0100
- To: Jeff Walden <jwalden@MIT.EDU>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Jeff Walden wrote: > > On 18.12.08 11:49, Julian Reschke wrote: >>> Alternately, making it clear that leading zeroes are allowed but >>> (perhaps) MUST NOT be sent would be acceptable. >> >> How would that help? As far as I can tell, leading zeros are totally >> harmless. Do you have evidence of problems caused by them? > > No; it's merely that they're only implicitly allowed by the production, > not explicitly noted in the accompanying prose. A note like "leading > zeroes are ignored" would be fine (and note that I did say "perhaps"); I > just don't see evidence that this oddity was intentional, and if it > can't be removed I'd rather it be explicitly allowed. Ahem, it *is* explicitly allowed by the grammar. And code that properly processes the value will need no special treatment of leading zeros, it just follows from the way decimal numbers work. BR, Julian
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