Re: In-Band Information Considered Harmful

Stephen Zander writes:
> > > > > > "Tim" == Tim Bray <tbray(_at_)textuality(_dot_)com> writes:
>     Tim> The DTD is (a) not required and (b) cannot be used to
>     Tim> determine what is or isn't "essential". -Tim
>
> Thus to make Perl REx effective, all of the datastream must be
> available to the programmer, because only the programmer knows what is
> or isn't "essential".  Not sure whether this means I side with Chip or
> Ilya though. :/
No wonder, since the our debate is about implementation, not about
semantic.

Ilya