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Re: [yang-doctors] question regarding conditional/optional statements

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Mon, 21 August 2017 20:06 UTC

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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 22:06:17 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: "Acee Lindem (acee)" <acee@cisco.com>
Cc: Norm Strahle <nstrahle@juniper.net>, "Aseem Choudhary (asechoud)" <asechoud@cisco.com>, "yang-doctors@ietf.org" <yang-doctors@ietf.org>, Ing-Wher Chen <Ing-Wher_Chen@jabil.com>
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Subject: Re: [yang-doctors] question regarding conditional/optional statements
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 05:33:33PM +0000, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
> 
> I would think a client could ascertain that a counter is not supported if
> it is not returned.
>

In practice yes, in theory not. (The counter might not be returned due
to a lack of permissions).

/js

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