[NNTP] Snapshot 4
Kai Henningsen
kaih at khms.westfalen.de
Thu Dec 2 12:16:00 PST 2004
ken at oceana.com (Ken Murchison) wrote on 26.11.04 in <41A7931D.4060303 at oceana.com>:
> - I still don't understand the reasoning for the '_' used in the core
> capability tokens. It makes things look ugly and I don't see any
> technical benefit. I guess I can live with it except for LIST (see below).
It's a completely misguided attempt at namespace cleanliness. The reason
it's misguided is that we have private tokens starting with X. Everything
not starting with X already is reserved, and there's no historic use of
the namespace to cope with. This is not C.
MfG Kai
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