Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84 (WLS Mods); site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!princeton!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: parsing host1!user@host2 - a new idea Message-ID: <473@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 20:27:25 EDT Article-I.D.: astrovax.473 Posted: Thu Oct 18 20:27:25 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 13:46:28 EDT References: <691@sunybcs.UUCP> <1606@nsc.UUCP> <1608@nsc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 11 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 {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls