[tap-l] User Supplied YAML Diagnostic Keys: Descriptive Version

[David E. Wheeler]

On Apr 13, 2008, at 11:37, Michael G Schwern wrote:

>>> A)  Just reserve ASCII [a-z].  This is very easy to check for but  
>>> I'm worried it's carving out too small a space.
>> Why would it be too small? I mean, that's a *lot* of words you can  
>> use.
>
> I don't have any particular reason.  Just a feeling that "7-bit  
> ASCII should be good enough for anyone" is not such a safe position  
> for anything wanting to look forward.

Well, it's not for *everyone*. Just for the folks who are adding keys  
to TAP itself, which is a pretty small set of people, all things told.

But anyway, I agree that B seems fine and it can always be reduced to  
A later, provided, of course, that we only use ASCII or Latin-1  
characters anyway, which seems quite likely to me.

Best,

David