[Zope3-dev] spelling of namespace signifiers

[Jim Fulton]

Florent Guillaume wrote:
> 
> Jim Fulton  <jim@zope.com> wrote:
> > Shane Hathaway wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, "--" can appear in lots of
> > > valid filenames, especially since it's the standard ASCII representation
> > > of long hyphens.
> >
> > I've never seen it in any. Have you?
> 
> It's not that we have such existing ids, it's that it's one more special
> case to add whenever we create an id for an object from user-supplied
> input.
> 
> Okay, maybe not that big a deal, but it doesn't seem clean to me.

I understand. No solution is perfect, unfortunately.  If clients knew 
about the parameter syntax (heck, if anyone at the W3c knew about it ;)
we'd be in a better situation. (I had a lunch conversation with 
Tim Berners Lee and Dan Connolly who weren't aware of it. :)

We'll have to find some middle ground that is a compromise among 
multiple objectives.

Jim

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