+1 The delimiter is unnecessary for humans. But pseudo-code could not be processed by a machine - no standard interpretation. Ed/ -----Original Message----- From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nick Hilliard Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 4:33 PM To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: IETF discussion list <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Question about pseudocode and <CODE BEGINS> Brian E Carpenter wrote on 13/12/2021 21:34: > Do people think it's a good or bad idea to label pseudocode in an RFC > with <CODE BEGINS>? it seems unnecessary? Pseudocode is aimed at humans rather than computers, so a friendly lead-in might be more accessible. If there were a strict grammar defined for pseudocode, i.e. to the point that you could feed it into a parser and get useful output, then there would be an argument for a delimiter token. Nick
