Re: facts about the real world, part 3

"D. J. Bernstein" <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is why 2822 requires minimal quoting.

Nitpick:  Although it recommends that quoting be avoided when it's not
needed (so foo.bar is preferred over "foo.bar"), I don't think think
it recommends "minimal quoting"; for example, I see no preference for
"foo:bar" over "\f\o\o\:\b\a\r".

If an implementation can handle the quotation marks, it can probably
handle the backslashes too, so I guess there's no need to recommend
minimal quoting.

AMC