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It's the colons that do it, in my opinion. They visually fill the gaps between segments, which makes it harder to pick out what is a digit and what is "empty sp
by jml7c5 5y ago
It's the colons that do it, in my opinion. They visually fill the gaps between segments, which makes it harder to pick out what is a digit and what is "empty space". Compare:
6d08:048c:4c3b:57f0:0bca:f236:e8ab:b52e
with
6d08-048c-4c3b-57f0-0bca-f236-e8ab-b52e
Though the best solution is to fully embrace the ASCII lifestyle that modern teletypes allow, and use the record separator 0x1f:
6d08 048c 4c3b 57f0 0bca f236 e8ab b52e
- jml7c5 5y ago(I'll take this opportunity to repeat an earlier bikeshed of mine, which is that IPv6 address syntax should have used hyphens instead of colons, and dealt with the ensuing "is it a hostname or ip address?" problem by always requiring square brackets: [abcd-ef01--2345] C'est la vie.)