On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:31:38 +0000, Peter Relson wrote: >One might say that a "token" longer than 10 characters at the beginning of a >message is not a message ID. > Or one might call it invalid.
>Another place where the limit is "used" is in National Language Support. NLS >skeletons provide room for only 10 characters for the message ID. >Another place is the MSGID parameter of the SLIP command which includes the >documentation >"The input MSGID can be a maximum of 10 characters". > Message processing should enforce the documented conventions in order to preclude such downstream surprises. To do otherwise is abuse of Postel's Robustness Principle. Even though this might result in detecting an error in the attempt to report an error. Or even recursive entry to users' error handling code. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
