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Re: [YANG] so many naming scopes

Balazs Lengyel <balazs.lengyel@ericsson.com> Thu, 10 January 2008 07:57 UTC

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From: Balazs Lengyel <balazs.lengyel@ericsson.com>
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Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> Usage guidelines and "coding styles" are valuable. But they should not
> be part of the language itself. The example above is not ambiguous and
> easy to parse for a machine - even though it might look stupid to most
> humans.
> 
I think our yardstick should be whether the example is easy to understand for humans. "Easy for 
machine" is far from enough.

Balazs


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