wildmats (was: Re: ietf-nntp Draft summary of IETF 48 meeting)

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> Agreed. In the XPAT command (see the Common Extensions draft) you parse
> the parameters as a succession of wildmats, and then (in code specific
> to the XPAT command) you stick them together separated by
> to-be-recognised whitespace (for whether the PAT command has this same
> behaviour, see my separate message).

This is an utterly horrible way of doing this; either whitespace shouldn't
be allowed or it should be preserved.  It definitely shouldn't be broken
apart and then replaced by a single space the way that INN does currently.
Ugh.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>