Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > > > I don't know what this “field header” is that you're referring to. Do > > you mean “field”? There's no header involved, only fields, AFAICT. > > The things we're talking about (a key/value pair, basically) is called a > "header field" in RFC 5322. The header part is of course because the > standard is written for e-mail, but our fields are essentially the same > thing as an RFC 5322 header field.
Except, of course, without any header being involved. For the sake of clarity, then, I hope we can drop the mis-application of the term “header” and call these things what they are: just a “field”. Bonus extra: not only is it clearer, it's shorter to type. -- \ “I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it | `\ is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I | _o__) say, ‘I think I might have written that.’” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
