- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 19:48:40 +0200
- To: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- CC: 'Geoffrey Sneddon' <foolistbar@googlemail.com>, 'HTTP Working Group' <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Brian Smith wrote: > Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: >> On 8 May 2009, at 18:08, Brian Smith wrote: >> >>> I don't get why s-Mon, s-Jan, l-Mon, etc. are named productions >>> (instead of >>> unnamed alternatives like in RFC 5023), but that is not new to this >>> change. >> Case sensitivity. Plain strings in ABNF are case insensitive. > > I meant, why not write them like this: > > day-name = %x4D.6F.6E ; "Mon", case-sensitive > / %x54.75.65 ; "Tue", case-sensitive > / %x57.65.64 ; "Wed", case-sensitive > / %x54.68.75 ; "Thu", case-sensitive > / %x46.72.69 ; "Fri", case-sensitive > / %x53.61.74 ; "Sat", case-sensitive > / %x53.75.6E ; "Sun", case-sensitive > > It's not really a big deal, but I think this way is clearer. I was going to agree, but then realized that we would loose clarity in the collected ABNF (which doesn't contain the comments). BR, Julian
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