[BillFranklin]

Quicker to type and scan! Though I admit this is preference, delimiters would work fine too.

Parsing works the same but is based on a simple regex rather than splitting on a hyphen.

euc=eu central; 1=zone/dc; p=production; wkr=worker; 1=node id

[usrme]

Thanks for getting back to me! Now that you've written it out, it's plainly obvious, but for me the readability and flexibility of delimiters beats the speed of typing and scanning. Many a times I've been grateful that I added delimiters because then I was no longer be hamstrung by any potential changes to the length of any particular segment within the name.

[adastra22]

You can more easily double-click-select the full hostname when there are no delimiters.

[stackskipton]

Yea, not putting in delimiter and then us having to change our format has bitten me so many times. Delimiter or bust.