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Is too valid

Grrr:


And yet:

Is too valid. Check the spec, y'all. Cf. the grammar for "." In particular:

     ::= any one of the 128 ASCII characters, but not any
               or 
     ::= "<" | ">" | "(" | ")" | "[" | "]" | "\" | "."
              | "," | ";" | ":" | "@"  """ | the control
              characters (ASCII codes 0 through 31 inclusive and
              127)

Posted by Ezra elias kilty Cooper on September 18, 2007 1:48 AM |

Comments

You get an A+ for pointing that out! ;)

And thanks for the "y'all". It's good to see you haven't become too British.

Posted by: Sean | September 18, 2007 5:02 AM

Thanks!

Have I become British at all?

Posted by: Ezra | September 18, 2007 3:01 PM

Well, when you keep talking about "functional programming" and "theory" and all that, people start to wonder. It's so ... un-American! ;)

Posted by: Sean | September 19, 2007 4:25 AM

Too right, Ez. Thanks.

Posted by: Jim | October 26, 2007 12:35 AM

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