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On 9/23/13 10:03 AM, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Peter Saint-Andre
> <[email protected] <mailto:[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.

Right. But if they're traditional, what is the traditional syntax to
handle them? ;-)

Peter

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