On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>wrote:

> > Many header fields include "[CWFS]" (folding whitespace with
> > optional comments) instead of "[FWS]". For simplicity of parsing I
> > would avoid using these, unless needed. But if you choose to use
> > [CFWS], that would still be fine.
>
> Personally I see no need to allow comments. Keep it simple.
>

Comments are traditional. Besides, we don't want just anyone able to write
a parser, so we?

Seriously, comments aren't much of a bother to deal with unless they're in
the (like this) middle of something else you're trying to parse, but on the
other hand they rarely add value.

Dave.
(So glad to see email things. I'm an email guy now, after all.)

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