- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 08:06:35 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Philip Taylor wrote: > > More generally, all uses of "must only" and "may only" etc seem > dangerous. The spec says "The key words [...] in the normative parts of > this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC2119", but > instead they have to be interpreted as described by the standard English > grammar rules when they're used in complex phrases like "must only", > which makes the spec harder to read when you're trying to read the > normative requirements, and can cause misunderstanding. (Does that make > things particularly harder for non-native-English-speaking people?) Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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