On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: > > For instance, when I look at "month" I find: > > "2.4.5.1 Months > > A month consists of a specific proleptic Gregorian date with no time-zone > information and no date information beyond a year and a month. [GREGORIAN] > > A string is a valid month string representing a year year and month month if > it consists of the following components in the given order: > > 1. Four or more digits, representing year, where year > 0 > 2. A U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS character (-) > 3. Two digits, representing the month month, in the range 1 ≤ month ≤ > 12" > > So it defines "month" (in bold) to be a date, consisting of a year and a month > (non-bold). This is confusing. > > Why not simply say: > > year = 4*DIGIT ; 4 or more digits, year > 0 > month = 2DIGIT ; 2 digits, 1 <= month <= 12 > > month-string = year "-" month > > ? That's a matter of opinion. Personally I find the prose version much more approachable. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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