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[Andrew Gierth]

>>>>> "Clive" == Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

 >> However, noone seemed to have read what the draft actually said (and still
 >> says in 9.5.2.2), which is:
 >> 
 >> "Any sequence of US-ASCII space or non-printing characters in a
 >> field MUST be replaced by a single US-ASCII space."
 >> 
 >> IOW, all whitespace, folding and control characters is collapsed to a
 >> single SP, which is a nice simple rule to understand, and makes it easy to
 >> do pattern matching against it (especially when using wildmats in XPAT
 >> style, where there is no means to specify multiple spaces in the wildmat,
 >> nor any means to specify arbitrary whitespace, even if \020 is
 >> introduced).

 Clive> Yes, I like that.

I don't. As I've repeatedly explained: we implemented it, it caused
problems for clients, we abandoned it.

I don't plan on going there again.

-- 
Andrew.