[Haskell-beginners] Re: Compiling C into Haskell

[Joost Kremers]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 08:28:25AM +0100, Thomas Davie wrote:

> Anyway, my basic point is that an email client that will not soft-wrap lines
> is fundamentally broken.

AFAIK the relevant RFCs state that email should *not* have unwapped lines. Which
means that a mail client that doesn't soft-wrap is not broken but standard-conforming.

> Emails can and do have lines longer than 80
> characters, and a client that can't render them has a serious bug.

I disagree. There is a clear standard for dealing with different line lengths.
It's called 'format=flowed' and basically states that lines should be wrapped
and end in space+newline. Email thus formatted can be reformatted by the client.

> If your
> client is one of these, I suggest you either (a) move to a less buggy client,
> or (b) write a patch to fix the bug. The correct solution though is not to
> enforce upon everyone else that they must write emails with a particular line
> length.

format=flowed does exactly that: not force upon everyone to write emails with a
particular line length. See RFC 2646. IMHO email clients that send long lines
instead of using format=flowed are buggy.


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Joost Kremers
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