Now, if you want to talk about special case logic, how about the fact that
<lt> doesn't have a corresponding </lt>? Now THAT's a special case! :-)
<lt> doesn't change the state of the parser, <bold> does.
Parser doesn't care, though, if there's no </bold>, it just keeps
bolding the text until it gets EOF from the MUA.
Sorry, to me, your arguments aren't sufficient to override the fact that
"<<" LOOKS better than <lt>.
Sure, << looks better. Again, so what?
For pete's sake, don't make the protocol fit your eyes,
it's gotta fit the "eyes" of a myriad of different computers,
most of which neither you nor I have seen.
Tony Hansen
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tony(_at_)attmail(_dot_)com
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Rick Troth <troth(_at_)rice(_dot_)edu>, Rice University, Information Systems
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Rick Troth <troth(_at_)rice(_dot_)edu>, Rice University, Information Systems