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Lars Marius Garshol scripsit: > I've always been very curious to know what the rationale for that > [i.e. comment information items] > is. To me, a major part of what the infoset was supposed to be about > was to draw the line between logically significant information and > purely lexical information. The current version fails to achieve this. It's a compromise. Some people felt that significant information was being kept in comments. If I had my way, they'd be gone. But the Infoset is not founded on any real principle at all: its design is empirical. -- John Cowan cowan@c... One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter
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