Re: [AC] except -> deny

 From a precision standpoint, however, I think "except" is a more clear 
term than deny as "except" implies a conditional on the previous 
statement where "deny" does not. 

allow=foo without=bar ???

exclude?

--Brad

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:49:22 +0100, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org> wrote:
>>> I'm thinking of changing "except" back to "deny". "except"
>>> together with "accept" is just too confusing when talking about
>>> it.
>>
>> I agree about the confusion.  I wonder what people would think of
>> "allow" and "except."
>
> Heh, oops. The draft already has that. I still think it's a bad idea 
> to use "except" though for the same reason. I agree with Hixie (over 
> on #webapi) that using a homophone for the attribute name is not a 
> good idea here.
>
>
> --Anne van Kesteren
> <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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>
>

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