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From: khiem@hpindda.HP.COM (Khiem Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: ASN.1 question
Message-ID: <5560033@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 89 15:50:18 GMT
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>
>X ::= SEQUENCE {
>	SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {INTEGER},
>	SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {INTEGER}}
>is bad.
>.........
>But,
>X ::= SEQUENCE {
>	a SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {INTEGER},
>	b SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {INTEGER}}
>is good.
>

At the first glance, there seems to be something wrong with
your compiler: those two above should be the same. a, b are
just optional identifiers, and it shouldn't make any difference
whether they are present or not.

Khiem
khiem@hpinddm.HP.COM