> On Feb 26, 2019, at 14:26, Adrian Farrel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey. > > I’ve been having this discussion with Kent off-line, but thought it should > come to the list. > > I don’t think it is a good idea to have two approaches. While it would be > relatively easy to code for both approaches, it seems to add a degree of > confusion if both have to be handled by the same code (consider deciding > whether leading space characters are to be retained or not, something that > can only be decided when the first non-space character is found), or by > having different code for the two different cases. > > It doesn’t seem to me that both cases are needed. We can pick one or the > other.
A single slash has been used to wrap long lines in editors and shells for decades at this point. and yeah whatever it is one method seems better than two. > > And *if* we want to allow manual folding so that indents can be made to make > the document more human-readable then we have to use a leading ‘\’ on > continuation lines to show which spaces should be stripped and which retained. > > Cheers, > Adrian > > From: netmod <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Kent Watsen > Sent: 25 February 2019 22:22 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [netmod] artwork folding: dual support modes? > > > I had a chat with the tools team recently and, in the course of things, it > was implied > that the double backslash approach we have now was both surprising and > non-intuitive. > > This got me thinking that we may have thrown the proverbial baby out with the > bathwater. > That is, currently we have a header that reads: > > NOTE: '\\' line wrapping per BCP XX (RFC XXXX) > > So why not *also* support a header that reads (note the singe slash): > > NOTE: '\' line wrapping per BCP XX (RFC XXXX) > > Whereby this second form only supports the folded line continuing on column 1 > (no indents). > > Thoughts? > > Kent // contributor > > > _______________________________________________ > netmod mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
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