# Re: Minor clarification on url: prefix

Michael Mealling (ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu)
Thu, 2 Dec 93 17:08:22 EST

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    From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)

    Message-Id: <199312022208.AA05987@oit.gatech.edu>

    Subject: Re: Minor clarification on url: prefix

    To: ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu (Simon E Spero)

    Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 17:08:22 EST

    In-Reply-To: <9312021233.AA16136@tipper.oit.unc.edu>; from "Simon E Spero" at Dec 2, 93 7:33 am

Simon E Spero said this:
> Against:
> Without some means of determining where the url ends, the URL: prefix
> loses badly.

For:
That's what <> are for. You end up with <URL:something> where "<" and ">"
delimit the thing in text and "URL:" tells you want that thing inside
those angle brackets is. It doesn't loose. You just need to use it
in the context of an additional wrapper.

-MM

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