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Re: Use of LWSP in ABNF -- consensus call

Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org> Tue, 15 May 2007 02:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: Use of LWSP in ABNF -- consensus call
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At 5:35 PM -0700 5/14/07, Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>I share your concerns about removing rules that are already in use 
>-- that would generally be a bad thing.  However I'm interested in 
>the consensus around whether a warning or a deprecation statement 
>would be a good thing.

A warning would be very useful, and a deprecation or removal would be 
very bad because either would cause people to go to the earlier 
documents to see what LWSP meant earlier.

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