- From: Andrew n marshall <amarshal@usc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 05:29:48 -0800
- To: "'Douglas Rand'" <drand@sgi.com>
- Cc: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wednesday, December 03, 1997 1:24 PM, Douglas Rand [SMTP:drand@sgi.com] wrote:
> Not true. Please think this through more carefully. What sorts
> of mistakes could adding funky characters like '/' and '~' create
> in parsers and lexers? I'd claim that the worst case is dramatically
> badly formatted output or actual crashes when something goes completely
> wrong.
Can you give any example of this? It would dramatically strengthen your case.
Andrew n marshall
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