- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:52:11 -0400
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Cc: www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 05:12 pm, John Cowan wrote: > > I never understood this discrimination against numbers and wonder if > > there was much demand to finally permit them and it was decided > > against? (Or where did this constraint come from in the first place?) > > It comes from SGML, but in general most computer languages don't allow > identifiers that begin with digits, so they don't get confused with > numbers. As an aside, it's been a minor, but common, inconvenience, particularly in the blog context where I have to stick a silly underscore in the URIs: http://blog.example.org/2002/06#_05.tu
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