- From: <scott_boag@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:06:42 -0400
- To: Michael Dyck <jmdyck@ibiblio.org>
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
public-qt-comments-request@w3.org wrote on 09/03/2004 11:02:10 PM: > ... > However, disallowing ':' at the start of CommentContents has a > side-effect that you may not have considered: it would disallow > a comment such as this: > ... > But if the "longest possible match" rule is staying, then why > would you redundantly express some of its restrictions in the EBNF? > (It seems like you might mislead people as to the completeness of the > EBNF.) Thanks Michael. Yes, I tend to agree. The bug you found is a good illustration of why it's a bad idea to do a substantive change for the simple motivation of clarification. On the other hand, a simple example(s) showing Daniel's issue might be bad idea. -scott
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