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Re: [imapext] AD review of draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-06

Narendra Bisht <ns.bisht@sea.samsung.com> Thu, 17 December 2015 17:01 UTC

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The data type for APPENDLIMIT is NUMBER.
Will it accommodate a NIL?

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> On 17 Dec 2015, at 03:39, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> wrote:
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Barry Leiba" <barryleiba@computer.org>
> To: "Bron Gondwana" <brong@fastmail.fm>
> Cc: "imapext@ietf.org" <imapext@ietf.org>
> Sent: 17/12/2015 9:14:31 a.m.
> Subject: Re: [imapext] AD review of 
> draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-06
> 
>>>> Why do we think there's anything wrong with using, say, the word 
>>>> "NONE" (either case-insensitive or case-sensitive; I don't care)?
>>>> What's wrong with this?:
>>>> 
>>>> C: t1 STATUS INBOX (APPENDLIMIT)
>>>> S: * STATUS INBOX (APPENDLIMIT NONE)
>>>> S: t1 OK STATUS completed
>>> 
>>> If you're going to do that, why not make it (APPENDLIMIT NIL), which 
>>> already has exactly the meaning that we want?
>> 
>> Yes, I'd forgotten about the existing token "NIL".  I like that approach.
> +1
> 
> Definitely not a fan of overloading the meaning of magic numbers

I don't think this is a particular important point (there are always limits of some kind), but I like NIL.

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