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Re: IRIP version 4 (Part 1) c



John Stracke wrote:

> Steve Mansour wrote:
>
> > Bruce_Kahn@iris.com wrote:
> >
> >> Good choice until that last part.  You should preclude some
> >> characters like
> >> '/' or <CR>, etc.
> >
> > Why?  You aren't suggesting a delimiter character are you? That would
> > imply some sort of structure. :-)
>
> Even if we don't have structure today, a delimiter permits us to *add*
> structure later if it turns out to be useful.

We went through that discussion a two of the editors meetings. The general
feeling is that it's a bad idea to put *any* sort of meaning into these
strings. Even a delimiter character.

-Steve
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