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Re: 6-bit coding (correction)
At 11:52 PM 4/16/97 EDT, Ron Rivest wrote:
>
>Correction:
>
> The rule should say: if either parenthesis is in a 6-bit region,
> then check to see that they are in the SAME 6-bit region by
> comparing their counts.
>
>Example: the input
> ( #1:{AA} )
>should pass, even though the parens are in different regions.
I don't like this mode of operation. I consider the length of a byte string
(and maybe its display hint) to be part of the object and to need to be
within the base64 object.
If we allow {} to mean base64 from within a verbatim string, we're forced to
escape {}.
- Carl
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