Re: Stateful?

From: Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Date: Wed May 28 2008 - 11:41:32 CDT

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2008/5/28 Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>:

> So there exists absolutely NO "stateless" encoding schemes.

Consider the following condition: the encoding of the concatenation of
two strings is always the concatenation of their encodings, and
similarly for decoding (if both parts are valid encoded streams at
all).

I would say that this condition defines one meaning of stateless
encodings. Quite a practical meaning.

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