Re: IPv6 address parsing

Seth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.spirit.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07-12-17 12:32, Michael Powell wrote:
> Why do you call it "contraption" when it is the octet grammar?

I forgot to answer: because it's not working, it's error-prone, it's
about 10x as complicated as it should, about 10x as long as it should be
and likely 10x as slow as it should be.

> what do you call "comparable"?
Usually taken to mean "comparing for equality". In IPv4, addresses are
EQUAL even if the representation is not.


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