> At 2:40 PM 11/21/96, Erik Selberg wrote:
>
> >Of course that leaves things that an author considers a "bar" an out
> >not to follow a standard, even if other folks consider it a "foo."
>
> But at the end of the day we cannot force authors to follow the
> standard even if they themselves would agree it is in fact a foo.
>
> So you haven't really lost anything.
>
> You can only get so far with a BNF -- the rest has to be gentle (?)
> persuasion :-)
ah, but it's far easier to persuade when you can say "See, you fit our
clear definition of a Foo, support our standard" versus "I think
you're a foo, even though you do not, so support our standard."
Better get it right the first time then always patching holes that
people weasel out of.
-Erik
-- Erik Selberg "I get by with a little help selberg@cs.washington.edu from my friends." http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/selberg _________________________________________________ This messages was sent by the robots mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to robots-request@webcrawler.com with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. For more info see http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html