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Re: [Ltru] RFC 4646 production "grandfathered" considered harmful



Addison Phillips scripsit:

> >>grandfathered = irregular 
> >>
> >>           / 1*3ALPHA 1*2("-" (2*8alphanum)) ; registered 
> >>           grandfathered codes that are well-formed, but would not 
> >>           otherwise be valid

I still don't understand the purpose of the second alternative.
It matches a random subset of well-formed tags which happen to
include all the grandfathered/redundant tags, but they also
match "langtag", and it allows all sorts of cruft to be well-formed
that will never be needed or useful.

-- 
A rabbi whose congregation doesn't want         John Cowan
to drive him out of town isn't a rabbi,         http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
and a rabbi who lets them do it                 cowan at ccil.org
isn't a man.    --Jewish saying

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