On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, at 14:50, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> Just on the question of use of "whitespace":
> I concur that it's a term of art, and that even if we were to try to
> neutralize it by referencing ABNF, ABNF also calls it whitespace (i.e., "WSP"
> and its derivatives).
>
> On the other hand, I believe there's no loss of precision or generality by
> simply calling it "space" either.
Personally, I think this is less clear as "space" is liable to be interpreted
as just the Space character (U+0020), rather than any whitespace character
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character>. So I would prefer to keep
the current text.
Cheers,
Neil.
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