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Re: Convention versus standard

• From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:23:01 +1000

You had to be there. Some of were still concerned about how to specify 
what switches to depress to load a binary value into an address or 
register when these things were designed.

So to take it one step further - what do the "modern" xml things do when 
trying to interpret my example.

I know that libxml2 tries to treat it as octal - and that causes me 
grief. What does Saxon do? Do we have a list of behaviors for xml/xsl 
interpreters?

This would make a good addition to Roger's lists of real life conventions.

Regards
Rick

Michael Kay wrote:
>> Wow, are people still using languages where that applies? 
>>     
>
> Blushing with embarassment, I see that this is true of Java! Amazing that
> anyone should dream up such a convention, let alone reproduce it in a modern
> programming language.
>
> Michael Kay
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