Re: [Nbd] [PATCH] Document format of strings in one place, limit to 4096 bytes

[Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 10:19:21PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> On 6 Apr 2016, at 21:27, Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...> wrote:
> > Also, most of those strings exist solely to make user interaction
> > easier. In that context, a 4K string is *way* too long; I'm thinking
> > something like 256 seems saner (80 characters, times three because
> > UTF-8, round up to the next power of two).
> 
> I agree it's way too long (partly for the above reason). I'm happy
> to go with 256, but it's conceivable we might want to reconsider
> if it's a 'MUST'.

We could do SHOULD for 256 and MUST for 4K; I'd be okay with that (4K is
ridiculously large enough that it shouldn't happen in practice, anyway)

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< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
       people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
       and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
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