Message-ID: <0nJFJs200WC714Gjw0@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:07:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rob Earhart <earhart+@CMU.EDU>
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: ABNF near finished?
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Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com> writes:
> If you're going to do that, I'd just as soon leave off the "%c" to keep it
> simpler.

  I concur.

> But it's far from intuitive that '' is case-sensitive and "" is
> case-insensitive.

  There are many things in the ABNF that aren't intuitive.  I think we
need something for case-sensitive strings - specifying them in hex or
octal is certainly *NOT* intuitive.

  (I'm partial to the way Perl handles case-insensitive regular
expressions - add a 'i' immediately after the string to indicate that
it's case-insensitive.  So there's only one syntax, and it's fairly
clear in the case-insensitive case that something weird's going
on...).

  )Rob