RE: iSCSI range separater

[pat_thaler@agilent.com]

Bill,

We are trying to avoid overloading characters. If we were willing to
overload, we could use : (colon) which is used by some applications as a
range separater. I don't think we should overload the minus sign.

If we are not overloading, I vote for tilde.
If we are willing to overload, I vote for colon.

Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Studenmund [mailto:wrstuden@wasabisystems.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:37 AM
To: Eddy Quicksall
Cc: iSCSI; luben@splentec.com; Rod Harrison; Julian Satran
Subject: RE: 


On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Eddy Quicksall wrote:

> A dash is also used for negative numbers (we don't have any yet but could
in
> the future).

True, but is that a concern here? For a range, you have to have two
numbers with the dash/minus between them. "-number" would not be a
valid range. So even if we ever get negative numbers, ranges should be
readily different.

The only point of confusion would be if we ever permitted algebraic
expressions, when the '-' would look like subtraction. But I think that
would neither be sensible nor likely.

Take care,

Bill