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It's not just the looks. That way it is possible to reference something by line and column.
by someweirdperson 5y ago
It's not just the looks. That way it is possible to reference something by line and column.
- crispyambulance 5y agoNo man, it's a deliberate look which sacrifices readability for some kind of retro-aesthetic whether they admit it or not. It's easy enough to reference things by section numbers. And really, if they cared about being able reference things to the n-th degree, the figures would have been captioned and have their own figure-number instead of just sort-of "in there" like a paragraph (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8200.html#section-4.4 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8200.html#section-4.4).