ietf-nntp Multiple Wildmat parameters

[Stan O. Barber]

"Stan O. Barber" wrote:
> 
> Peter Mee writes:
> 
> In section 4 of the draft, the character set paragraph indicates:
> 
>             characters. Keywords and arguments MUST be each separated by
>             one or more US-ASCII SPACE or US-ASCII TAB characters.
> 
> Multiple Wildmat arguements are currently separated by commas.  Is the comma
> or the above description an error?

My take on this would depend on closing the arguement about the representation
of 
multple wildmats that others have surfaced. 

I would say that EXCEPT for wildmats, the statement is correct.  Once we settle
on how
multple wildmats are formatted, then we can revise this to match up with that.





> 
> Proposed additional text about multiple wildmat arguements:
> 
>           Where more than one wildmat arguement is given with a command the
>           arguement that is left-most is given least precedence, the
>           arguement that is right-most is given most precedence and those
>           wildmat arguements between are given an increasing precedence
>           from left to right.
> 
> Proposed additional sample (assuming space is the separator between
> arguements):
> 
>                  g) a* !ab* -- matches any string beginning with a but
>                     does not have b as it's second character.  The string
>                     "a" (without quotes) is a match.

Comments from others?