ietf-nntp Proposed wildmat text

[Charles Lindsey]

In <yly9xud8e6.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:


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

>> No, you are trying to define meanings for all sorts of stupid things like
>> [a-------b] which are quite useless, but will complicate implementation
>> tremendously.

>Not really.  It just describes how the simplest implementation ends up
>doing things.  Trying to do anything else with such wildmats would end up
>complicating the implementation (trying to reject them as invalid
>*definitely* complicates the implementation).

Then in that case you just say that the result of using the more obscure
cases is "undefined" or "implementation dependent". The point is that you
don't force implementors to do things in a particular way for cases that
are plain ridiculous anyway.

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