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So... what are we supposed to do? Every abstract model of reality has to make some simplifying assumption. Or should we curate some sort of general libraries th
by jordigh 11y ago
So... what are we supposed to do? Every abstract model of reality has to make some simplifying assumption. Or should we curate some sort of general libraries that can handle all the exceptions to the rules if they are given enough context? Many of these libraries already exist.
This is like trying to accept all valid email addresses according to the RFC. Even when we have a spec, there's a maddeningly complex array of possibilities, but it's ok if for almost everything we accept some subset of it. It would be madness, for example, if we forced government employees of a particular country to be able to deal with all possible scripts of the world, including Prince's symbol, just to account for all possible ways that humans name themselves.
- xenophonf 11y agoThis is remarkably easy if you aren't writing an MDA/MTA: Treat the email address like a blob. The only verification necessary, if any, is whether the user clicks the enrollment link or whatever.