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by vzaliva 2008 days ago
That's why things like IP address textual representation needs to be rigorously and formally specified using non-ambiguous syntax notation. The implementations then can formally verified to comply to this syntax spec. At the end I would love to have a formally verified library implementation of IP address parser for major mainstream programming languages which everybody could rely upon and do not try to write their own parser. That's a dream.