When there is more code containing more loops and more conditionals
the testing of that code is more complex.
>Furthermore, we do not believe the statement of "for no apparent
>benefit".
Let's discuss these benefits. I suggest a thread with "benefits of
ASCII" in the subject line, but this thread will probably suffice.
>Again I must ask: what are we doing in IPP that is fundamentally
>different than other web-oriented transactions utilizing HTTP? Others
HTTP is used to transfer a lot of binary material (primarily,
according to the stats on a small proxy cache I run). We are
primarily binary material.
>have not found a need to degenerate to binary encodings, so why should
"degenerate"? What is the term for that rhetorical technique...
>Staying in a text-only domain leverages the many text-based development
>tools prevalent in today's web-centric environments that span the
Good. I like that benefit. I can see how it might be important.
Will those tools deal with precise delimiters in specific
quantities, combined with length-preceded chunks of binary data
which may contain various delimiters (as defined by 6/17)? And
those same tools are unable to deal with binary encodings?
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