- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:40:13 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre wrote: > 2)* People also asked for (and were discouraged from): > the following characters: "=","/", "\","@", "#", > ":", "^","<", ">", and "%". Which do you actually think are good? > 3) Wanted to start with a numeric WITHOUT changing > the name start character for all other names. > > 4) Wanted to allow very LONG IDs, without permitting > future programmers to make GIs longer than > 8 characters. Why shouldn't other names start with numbers and be arbitrarily long? I'm still trying to figure out why ID names should be special. I don't think it is a great idea to choose a GI called 89761232112234321234123415128766196919.3714895913246964 . But it doesn't look like a great ID either. Paul Prescod
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