On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, ned(_dot_)freed(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com wrote:
I therefore question the appropriateness of making this assumption and
certainly do not make it in the code I write.
I intended to make the assumption (about lexical analysis of as yet
undefined header fields) while considering proposals for the definition
of new header fields, and perhaps in code where failure would not matter
(for example, a user interface feature to elide all comments when
displaying the header).
--apb (Alan Barrett)