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Re: A processing instruction for robots

  • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
  • To: "'XML developers' list'" <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 15:05:15 +0800

expletive instruction

From: tbray@t... <tbray@t...>

 >Walter is right on both counts, but I'm having trouble getting
comfortable
>with his PI idea.  Not violently against it, but two things make me
>uncomfortable.  First of all, PIs basically [expletive deleted].  Having said that, if
you
>gotta use them, this is the kind of thing to use them for.

If PIs [expletive deleted], then perhaps they [expletive deleted] in the same way that using #defines
in C++
does or the SQLJ preprocessor does:  it can be a sign of insufficient
analysis in
the whole system (perhaps for legitimate reasons: the need may have
emerged
over time) or because of habit or to clearly demarcate different
processing
inputs to simplify subsequent phases or because of a deficiency in the
underlying language.

But this is not to allow that PIs [expletive deleted] in the first place.

Actually, to use the C++, I think PIs correspond to pragmas more than
anything.

Rick Jelliffe


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