ietf-nntp Simplification of wildmat

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Wed May 2 07:23:45 PDT 2001


Charles Lindsey said:
> It would be helpful to explain, in some NOTE, just why "\" has been
> excluded from wildmat-exact. Presumably, it is to allow its use in some
> future extension. Ditto with "[" and "]" in the 'b' version.
> 
> In 5.2.1  each match any -> each matches any
> In 11.4   SHALL -> MUST   ???

All fixed in both versions.

> It would be slightly simpler to exclude "!" from wildmat-exact too, since
> this is the absolute minimal proposal.

I think that's too minimal.

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