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On 08/12/2014 04:19 PM, John Doty wrote:
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> On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Dave Curtis <davecurtis AT sonic DOT net> wrote:
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>> Because if "CR and LF have no effect", then why the admonition against CR/LF against places after a comma?
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> Often, specs for readers say “be liberal in what you accept” while specs for writers say “be conservative in what you emit”. That seems to be the case here. Don’t make a big deal of it.
>

Yes, I totally understand that philosophy.  If I was writing a reader, I 
would have no problem being liberal.  If I was writing a writer, I would 
have no problem being conservative.  But... I am writing a validation 
tool, which leaves zero margin for lack of precision.

I first did logic design on mainframe CPU's in 1981. I spent a large 
part of my life combing architecture documents for nits, making the 
lives of the spec authors quite miserable until they told me precisely 
what they meant.  Logic design mistakes in CPUs can be expensive.  At 
one point in my life I signed off on the Pentium processor errata sheet 
every month before it went out.....

> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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