Re: [Json] Consensus call: establishing name equality

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Fri, 21 June 2013 22:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Consensus call: establishing name equality
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
> Hm, I think this is useful.  I’ve seen people go off the rails trying to be
> overly clever comparing strings, so this in effect is just telling them not
> to overthink. -T

Is that yet another instance of breakage we're not allowed to cause?