# Re: URL revision

Randy Bush (randy@psg.com)
Thu, 21 Jul 94 12:23 PDT

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    Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 12:23 PDT

    From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Subject: Re: URL revision

> The primary purpose of the wrapper characters is to delimit the end of
> the URL, and to add an additional confirmation that the letters 'URL:'
> actually preceed a URL.

The latter implies unlimited backtracking, and sends shudders V giggles
down the spine of anyone who took undergrad parsing.

Is the *syntax* of a URL designed for human or machine parsing? If the
latter, perhaps some of the basics of computer language design (perchance
the most studied area of both applied and theoretical CS) may help.

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