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Re: ABNF or example error in RFC 5228

2008-12-17 06:39:47

On Wed Dec 17 11:18:26 2008, Dave Cridland wrote:
On Wed Dec 17 10:33:38 2008, Magnus Westerlund wrote:
Section 3.2 for example contains the following example:

   Example:  require ["fileinto", "reject"];

However if one looks at the ABNF for string-list it says:

   string-list  = "[" string *("," string) "]" / string
; if there is only a single string, the brackets
                    ; are optional

Are you referring to the "," instead of "," *WSP which is actually used?

If so, then yes, there's a minor error, which could be put as an erratum.

Actually, no, there isn't an error there.

Section 8.2, from which the above ABNF fragment is extracted, begins "No whitespace or comments appear below."

Section 8.1 says "[whitespace characters] are ignored except as they separate tokens."

So I was talking rubbish, sorry.

Dave.
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