Re: draft-gregorio-uritemplate-02.txt

James M Snell scripsit:

> For URI Templates they generally would be.  For IRI Templates, however,
> given that the whole point behind IRI's is to allow non-ascii characters
> to be used, it makes very little sense to limit the varname to the ASCII
> alphabet.  Allowing this does not make the template any harder to parse.

I may want to support IRI Templates in a language that supports Unicode
fine, but has a limited set of identifier names.  That argues for
limiting the space of variable names, and I don't see a compelling
argument in favor of it.

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Received on Monday, 26 November 2007 23:20:49 UTC