- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:52:11 +0100
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
- Cc: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
* Simon Sapin wrote: >On 28/01/2014 10:31, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >> Arbitrary limits are bad design and often harder to implement correctly >> than something without arbitrary limits. The obvious parsing device for >> something like the `@charset` rule is a DFA, and a DFA that halts after >> N input bytes is a lot more complex than one that does not. > >I disagree. > >A DFA may be the first theoretical construct that comes to mind, and >limiting the input length may difficult to express strictly as a DFA. >But there is no such constraint when writing actual code. I addressed this in the sentence right after where you cut the quote. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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