Re: [Cbor] [netmod] iana-if-type.yang has multiple revisions with the same date

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2022-05-25, at 11:05, William Lupton <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> I think this partly depends on the general attitude to non-ASCII characters, e.g., are accented words tolerated, encouraged, frowned upon or forbidden?

Long discussion, including CVEs like:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/11/01/cve-2021-42574.html

> Are programming languages in general tolerant of smart quotes for defining strings (I don't know but I suspect not)?

Certainly not.  This would be a major innovation, trading convenience for correctness.  It also wouldn’t be backwards compatible:

  description "like “foo”, this doesn’t create a “bar”.";

(I had to be careful typing this, I hope I didn’t mess up.)

> If not then I don't think that YANG should be either. But the tools could generate better error messages if they are inadvertently used!

Yes. This is probably a bit harder than one might think, in the presence of examples like the above.

Grüße, Carsten

> On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 10:01, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On 2022-05-25, at 10:51, William Lupton <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > 
> >       "Coalesced revision history entries for 2018-06-28.”;
> 
> Wonderful example.  I’m wondering whether the next version of CDDL should simply accept typographic quotes in place of the typewriter quote…  (and, as the example demonstrates, any weird mix of them.)
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
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