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From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no>
cc: drums@cs.utk.edu, moore@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: ABNF issue: Multi-line <prose-val>? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:43:26 +0200."
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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:27:09 -0400
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IMHO, any ABNF grammar that says

     c           = < any one of the 128 ASCII characters, but
                    not any special or SP >

rather than listing out the valid characters, is broken.
This isn't a "last resort", this is pure laziness.

Keith