RE: [xri] Issue 1: Clarifying * Semantics

["Loren West" <loren.west@epok.net>]

I find it hard to believe that the implied delegation
between "=" and "Loren" in "=Loren" is any harder to
understand or code than the implied delegation between
"1010" and "10" in "1010:10".

It seems to me that the argument of a single delegation
character falls down when you consider the delegation
between the GCS character and the first name.

=Loren

-----Original Message-----
From: Fen Labalme [mailto:fen@idcommons.org] 
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:41 AM
To: Loren West
Cc: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [xri] Issue 1: Clarifying * Semantics


Loren West wrote:
> I believe we haven't heard from anyone who's written
> a parser because they'd be hard pressed to describe why
> there's a significant difference.

As an author of two parsers and a resolver, I find the proposed
simplification 
to be of great use, not only in simplifying the BNF and the code, but also
in 
simplifying the understanding needed to write the code.

Fen