Then there's the problem that when a 800-pound gorilla ships code, thatStrange as I feel defending Microsoft, I actually think it's commendable that they implemented IPv6 at all; it's not as if there's a lot of market demand for it yet. From that viewpoint, it's not surprising that they gave IPv6 address literals a low priority.
code largely defines expectations for what will and will not work in practice
- often moreso than the standards themselves.
(Personally, I would've implemented address literals *first*, so that, if I ran into a bug, I could isolate whether it was in DNS lookup or not. Would've saved time in the long run, since debugging takes longer than coding.)
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