Fwd: HTTP 1.1 question on "#rule" example
Jim Gettys (jg@pa.dec.com)
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 13:49:03 -0700
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In the definition of "#rule", draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-03 states:
This makes the usual form of lists very easy; a rule such as
"( *LWS element *( *LWS "," *LWS element )) " can be shown as
"1#element".
I'm confused by the presence of the outer set of parentheses in the
former but not the latter rule. Wouldn't it be clearer to rewrite it as
"( 1#element )"?
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Cc: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>, dmk@bell-labs.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: HTTP 1.1 question on "#rule" example
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jul 1998 08:02:39 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 17:54:30 -0700
From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
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>than as metasyntactic characters. Instead, only the inner quotes
>(around the comma) designate literal text. Perhaps you could rewrite
>this with the two rules displayed on separate lines and not surrounded
>by outer quotes:
Yes, or just use single-quote marks on the outside.
....Roy
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