[erlang-questions] Any Erlang Devs Contemplating Elixir?

[Andrew Berman]

Valid point.  Then why test on is_uri?  Every string should come back as
true.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:04 PM Kenneth Lakin <kennethlakin@REDACTED>
wrote:

> On 04/22/2016 03:56 PM, Andrew Berman wrote:
> > In Elixir when I do URI.parse(""),
> > I get no error and everything returned is nil.  Why?  It's clearly not a
> > valid URI...
>
> I don't agree. As I mentioned in my mail, it looks like the URL parser
> of both Python and Elixir are kinda using RFC 1808's rules for URL
> validity. My interpretation of section 2.2 indicates that the empty
> string is a valid relative URL. (A URL can be a relativeURL, which can
> be a rel_path, which -I think- can be zero characters.)
>
> Moreover, if Elixir is doing it wrong, then so is Python. Note that both
> URL parsers in question are in the standard libraries of their
> respective languages.
>
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