Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 02:18:43PM +0200, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> > 
> > > It
> > > is sometimes convenient to treat something that is in fact constructed
> > > as an atomic value.
> > 
> > Convenient for users that enter these values, perhaps.  But not as
> > convenient for a program (or a filter) that needs one of the combined
> > values.  For example, suppose I want to find all entries with a given
> > prefix; that is non-trivial with a combined ip-address-and-prefix
> > type.
> >
> 
> Syntactically, ip-prefix and ip-address-and-prefix look the same, it
> is all about whether the non-prefix bits carry a meaning or not. Once
> these bits carry a meaning, you argue that this combination is a bad
> idea? Or do you argue that ip-prefix also is a bad idea

No, filtering works b/c ip-prefix has a canonical format.

I argue that in general it is a bad idea to combine two values into
one.


/martin


> (and if so do
> you propose ip-prefix to be deprecated)? And what do we do with url?
> 
> /js
> 
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