Kenneth Marshall wrote:
conversion process themselves. Accepting random input puts a performance
hit on everybody following the standard.
Why is that necessarily the case?
Why not have a liberal parser and a configurable switch that determines
whether non-standard
forms are liberally accepted, accepted with a logged warning, or rejected?
James
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