RE: [PATCH v2] config: add --comment option to add a comment
On Monday, March 11, 2024 2:57 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
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>Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] config: add --comment option to add a comment
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>* Dragan Simic:
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> > I mean, perhaps the whole thing with the tab characters may not be > the right example, but I just wanted to point out that the
>more > major an open-source project is, the more discussion is often > required.
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>Oh, I have no qualms discussing things, but over the last 40+ years, nothing good has ever come from debating the pros and cons of
>tabs and spaces. At least that's my personal experience.
My take would be that all whitespace is ignored, but if you want a tab or other character in a value, be explicit about it:
variable = "value\ts" # comment
where all whitespace and comments are dropped from the parse to be functionally equivalent to
variable=value(TAB)s
when processing. Implicit quoting arbitrary whitespace can be interpreted in an ambiguous way. That's basically what the C parser does.
--Randall
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