The 'variables' extension has to specify greedy/non-greedy ":matches" ;
this really ought to be in 3028 so that extensions can consistently
follow whatever rule there is; although, again, it might fail the
"non-substantive" test.
I don't think this behaviour description is relevant for the main spec.
it can not be observed without the variables extension.
Yes, exactly so. This could easily come back to bite us when we need to
move to
draft.
sorry, I'm dense. are you agreeing with Mark or with me?
With you.
My worry here is that requiring non-greedy in the base specification is, as you
put it, requiring nonobservable behavior that cannot be externally verified.
When documents go to draft we at a minimum will have to write up a list of
conformance criteria and then make sure we have enough conforming
implementations. Including non-observable criteria on the list means that
the only person who can submit information about a given implementation
is someone able to see the code for that implementation. This would have
been a problem for several past conformance list exercises.
Ned