On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:34:48PM +0000, Alex Bligh wrote: > > > On 15 Dec 2016, at 16:49, Wouter Verhelst <w...@uter.be> wrote: > > > >> Because the namespaces and leaf-names are already restricted to > >> non-whitespace characters. I thought having tabs, line feeds, > >> returns, em-space, en-space etc. was not particularly useful. > >> I could be persuaded to relent re spaces. > > > > I could imagine that the context might include as part of its name a > > user-defined bit. If we're going to disallow whitespace, then that would > > mean namespaces would have to do all sorts of escaping etc. I don't > > think that's a good idea. > > So to be clear do you want to include all whitespace > everywhere? Or just to the right of the colon in queries?
Just in queries. I agree that in namespace names, it doesn't make much sense. -- < ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules, and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too. -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12