[REBOL] Re: Bug! Rebol's parsing of urls is incorrect.
From: ryanc:iesco-dms at: 9-Feb-2001 16:36
Hey Andrew,
I am not so quick to call these bugs myself. You do bring up some interesting
points though on rebol's data validation capability.
To say that http://www.rebol.com? is not a URL at all, is a stretch from my
perspective. What about 23'12'67? Is that not a number?
Maybe 'type? should be as loose as possible, allowing for the greatest
flexibility on its use? A seperate pickier and slower data validation function
could be used to say that something is not ready for the outside world. After
all, 'type?'s docs just say "Returns a value's datatype," no mention of
validity.
What do you think?
--Ryan
Andrew Martin wrote:
> Rebol also has a problem with parsing urls:
> >> type? http://www.rebol.com!
> == url!
> >> type? http://www.rebol.com.
> == url!
> >> type? http://www.rebol.com?
> == url!
> >> type? http://www.rebol.com,
> == url!
>
> My email client correctly leaves out the exclamation mark "!", period ".",
> question mark "?" and comma "," but Rebol treats all of them as part of the
> URL, which is clearly incorrect.
>
> Andrew Martin
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