- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:50:38 +0000
- To: Matt Menke <mmenke@google.com>
- cc: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <CAEK7mvoXNf_KdpQhj2kwiRLaHm-C1BtjduUgy1cwOnCQ265yzg@mail.gmail.com> , Matt Menke writes: >I don't think it needs to be that complicated. If there's just a prefix >before all types (Say '#' for numbers, '&' for times, and '!' for >identifiers), we don't have to exclude the prefix characters from >identifiers, do we? True, if we prefix all values we can avoid that problem. However, that would kill one of the major attraction of CS: That 19 RFC723x headers already conform to it. -- 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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