Re: Revising Structured Fields: scope

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Thu, 13 October 2022 06:18 UTC

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Hi Julian,

> On 13 Oct 2022, at 4:42 pm, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> +1 on all points, except for the one about ABNF. The referenced
> statement is about how to define Structured Fields in other specs; it
> doesn't really say anything about why the use of ABNF *inside* the SF
> spec would be a bad idea.
> 
> FWIW, as implementer of the spec the ABNF made things easier for me; I
> understand that people who do not use ABNF a lot might feel different.
> But if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Now I'm even more concerned -- the spec is explicit that you shouldn't be using the ABNF to implement, you should be using the algorithms.



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