Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> Heh, that's a cool idea. But that's not how standards work.
> You cannot just insert things at random points in low-level config
> files or protols. How do you think this would work?
> You insert "$tuned_params", I insert "{tuned_params}", and GNU people
> insert "@TUNED_PARAMS@", all because the spec didn't say that's
> forbidden?
Unfortunately, that is exactly how standards work in the real world. Pretty
much any standardized language has dialects with incompatible extensions.
Sometimes even explicitly ignoring a rule in the standard that forbids an
extension at this place (and if you are lucky, the implementation providing
an off-by-default flag to actually enforce that rule, flag which may or may
not work reliably). Expecting any particular implementation to actually
strictly conform to a standard and to always flag all non-strictly-
conforming input is not a realistic expectation.
Kevin Kofler
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