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Re: [hybi] Versioning is a anti-pattern

John Tamplin <jat@google.com> Fri, 03 September 2010 15:44 UTC

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From: John Tamplin <jat@google.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:44:50 -0400
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Subject: Re: [hybi] Versioning is a anti-pattern
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Scott Ferguson <ferg@caucho.com> wrote:

> I do have a minor, aesthetic suggestion for the framing to reorder the bits
> so the reserved bits are contiguous.
>
>  * more(1)
>  * length(7)
>  * res(4)
>  * opcode(4)
>
> It's not a substantive or important proposal, of course, but looks a bit
> cleaner than splitting the reserved bits.
>

I dislike having the bits of the length separated from each other (since the
16/63-bit case it will come after the opcode).  In particular, it makes it
hard to write ABNF which is clear.

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John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google

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