- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 20:24:54 +0000
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- cc: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <D7E6606E-AC13-4767-AD73-28C2E91EC67D@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri tes: >If containers are only allowed to contain simple types, the need for a >schema language diminishes quite a bit; headers can be defined pretty >easily in prose, perhaps with references to registries where >appropriate. It is not significantly harder to specify recursive structures than flat structures, but of course the work to do so will make many people want not to. As for the praise for prose, yes, it is amazing what you can do if you are Hemmingway, Prachett, Jefferson or Adams, but most of us are not. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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