- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:35:19 +1000
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: Thomas Nordin <nordin@rbdev.com>, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
I've never seen an nested comment, and agree that they're nasty to handle. So, +1 to deprecating. On 03/05/2009, at 1:55 PM, Brian Smith wrote: >> Furthermore, am I missing something, or can't we also remove >> "comment" >> from the right hand side of the "comment" production? > > IMO, nested comments are a bad idea because it makes comment (and > thus Via > and User-Agent) non-regular. They should be treated as obsolete (like > obs-text), especially since those headers are very frequently parsed > with > regular expressions. -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
Received on Monday, 4 May 2009 05:36:01 UTC