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Everyone knows what an email address is, right? (Quiz) (e-mail.wtf)

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[-] brisk@aussie.zone 17 points 4 months ago

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Email addresses can have comments?!

[-] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nested comments. RFC822 had a whole bunch of bad ideas in it, but nobody thought much of it at the time. Most programming languages don't even do nested comments, because they want to filter them out with a simple lexer before the grammar ever sees it.

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