With my individual contributor hat on: IMHO, I think this variant is more readable.Kent Karlsson wrote:... Replacing (DIGIT 3alphanum) by (DIGIT 3*7alphanum) would justintroduce needless ambiguity in the grammar.s/ambiguity/redundancy/That said, Kent's response was spot-on. Everything that needs to be covered in the existing production is covered. If it were really desirable to remove the subtlety/cleverness in the ABNF, and **I DO NOT PROPOSE CHANGING ANYTHING HERE**, the solution CE was thinking of might have looked like this:variant = ALPHA 4*7alphanum ; registered variants / (DIGIT 3*7alphanum)
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