ietf-nntp Simplification of wildmat

Maurizio Codogno mau at beatles.cselt.it
Wed May 2 10:27:52 PDT 2001


On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:44:43 -0500
"Stan O. Barber" <sob at verio.net> wrote:


> Folks, since a version of this is supposed to be in the next draft, 
> we need to settle this wildmat issue right away.

I prefer to avoid the sets, ant therefore I vote for version 5b.
The reason is that I prefer a simpler grammar: I shudder when I see
   [^a-dx-p]  all one character strings except "a", "b", "c", and "d"
ISO 10646/UTF8 collating is a mess, IMO, and I don't want to try it
on a wildmat.

Besides, I don't see examples where sets are actually needed: 
in practice, it should always be possible to unfold the set and 
obtain a not-too-long wildmat.

ciao, .mau.



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