On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>wrote: > Sam Johnston wrote: > >> ... >> I would say implementations SHOULD NOT use quotes where not required but >> MUST always accept them. >> ... >> > > So what's the interop problem ([1]) that we would solve by saying "SHOULD > NOT"? > Simple implementations (such as sysadmin scripts) will often handle quotes poorly or not at all, particularly where they're used to dealing with single instances of registered relations. That is to say that using quotes unnecessarily is likely to cause interop breakage with poorer implementations (unfortunately not everybody reads standards and of those that do, not all of them respect them). Sam
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