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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> > > (part :type image/gif)
> > > (external "~/rms.gif")
> > > (end multipart)
> > 
> > Would any of this be visible to the user?
> 
> All of it.

This is disturbing to me, because I tend to mail/post lots of Lisp
code.

> would be a possibility, though...  Yes, the `end' things are totally
> unLispy.  So the multipart would be:
> 
> (multipart :type alternative
> (part :type text/plain
> This is plain text.)
> (part :type image/gif
> (external "~/rms.gif")))
> 
> Er.

Double er.  The problem with this is that `This is plain text.'
must not contain closed parentheses -- or its parens must be balanced, 
depending on how you implement it -- but both strike me as wrong.  Of
course, you could roll in your own parser, like in the case of SGML,
but it sounds yucky.

Again, perhaps it's just me and everyone else is ha-ha-happy about
these design ideas for multipart composition.

-- 
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