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RE: [Ltru] Re: Remove extlang from ABNF?

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Wed, 05 December 2007 17:09 UTC

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Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: Remove extlang from ABNF?
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> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org]


> > future. By removing extlang, we do no damage at all to existing data
> or
> > code.
>
> As I said, I don't favor removing them -- there is no gain from doing
> so
> except a theoretical nicety.

The potential gain would be making it easier to grok and implement the syntax and explain it to others. It may (or may not) be that comments in the ABNF statement clearly indicating deprecation may allow that.


Peter


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