OT: Means Off Topic (aka List Etiquette)

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 46228
interpreted = N
texte = If you can't keep this stuff off the list, please at least try and remember to OT the subject so the rest of us can choose to avoid it.-Chris-----Original Message----- From: John Peacock [mailto:jpeacock@rowman.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:22 AM To: WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com Subject: Re: No spaces allowed in text variable names ... ? Kenneth Grome wrote: > Several years ago, Grant Hulbert told me -- very clearly -- that he > wrote the webcatalog parsing engine to consider any character to be > exactly like any other character when it parses webdna code.You'll have to forgive me my skepticism; unless you can produce the e-mail in question, I'm afraid I cannot trust your memory of events. And, as I pointed out in the earlier thread, _you yourself_ were fully aware of the limitation on field and variable names in July 2000 (unless you want to claim that was another forged message).If Grant were still around, I suspect that he could confirm that the fact that WebCat 1-3 permitted spaces in field and variable names was an oversight, not a concious design decision. Apparently very few people would even think of using spaces in field/variable names, since this issue has come up very, very infrequently.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. OT: Means Off Topic (aka List Etiquette) (Chris List Recipient 2002)
If you can't keep this stuff off the list, please at least try and remember to OT the subject so the rest of us can choose to avoid it.-Chris-----Original Message----- From: John Peacock [mailto:jpeacock@rowman.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:22 AM To: WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com Subject: Re: No spaces allowed in text variable names ... ? Kenneth Grome wrote: > Several years ago, Grant Hulbert told me -- very clearly -- that he > wrote the webcatalog parsing engine to consider any character to be > exactly like any other character when it parses webdna code.You'll have to forgive me my skepticism; unless you can produce the e-mail in question, I'm afraid I cannot trust your memory of events. And, as I pointed out in the earlier thread, _you yourself_ were fully aware of the limitation on field and variable names in July 2000 (unless you want to claim that was another forged message).If Grant were still around, I suspect that he could confirm that the fact that WebCat 1-3 permitted spaces in field and variable names was an oversight, not a concious design decision. Apparently very few people would even think of using spaces in field/variable names, since this issue has come up very, very infrequently.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Chris List Recipient

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