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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
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Subject: Re: parsing host1!user@host2 - a new idea
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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 20:27:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 20:27:25 1984
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Chuqui and Chongo's articles <1606@nsc.UUCP> and <1608@nsc.UUCP> have many
good ideas.  Much of the points mentioned there are things I had thought of
myself and wondered why weren't they thought of in the standard.  I think that
RFC 822 is an inferior standard because it does not allow something like
nestable parentheses to indicate and override precedence.  The double quote
character provided part of the functionality mentioned but unfortunately
because a double quoted clause is closed by another double quote, double
quoted claused cannot be nested.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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