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Re: [netmod] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC7950 (5642)

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 22 February 2019 13:15 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC7950 (5642)
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:45:16PM +0000, Balázs Lengyel wrote:
>    I am not asking for a change, but ...
> 
>    IMHO it would be better if YANG would not allow whitespace in enum names.
>    It is a rarely needed freedom that degrades usability and can lead to
>    mistakes
>    and higher tool development costs. So it is bad for both people and tools.
> 
>      * It is misleading, as a human user can mistakenly think that "this is
>        legal" is actually 3 separate values
>      * Some tools tend to consider spaces as separators
>      * When creating code from YANG this needs special handling
>

Banning white space may make you feel better but it does not really
solve the problem for tool makers. There are many more restrictions
and going for the most restricted minimum gets us back to really
limiting results.

/js

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