Re: [Xlog-discussion] RE: Hold your (xlog-) horses - suggestion

[Stephane Fillod]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> Maybe a good way would be to leave out the ':' and use some other separator,
> like '\t' or '\2' (whatever). This way we don't have to care so much about

':' is fine (or '\t' or '\2') because we restricted the field *name* to
alphanum characters, i.e. the following char set:   [a-zA-Z0-9_]

> what the application will send over. I don't want to restrict application
> writers to much in the message format. The easier the format, the sooner
> we will see application writers using it....

yup!


73,
Stephane