John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> writes:
> Now that Sussman has kindly placed this in the 1.1-consider pile:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=890
>
> I'd like to document again where we currently stand. The two patches
> I associated with the issue make keywords into a hash (as opposed to a
> struct) in a 100% API neutral fashion. Only the existing keywords are
> handled.
>
> The third patch, which was posted only to the list:
>
> http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2004-04/1184.shtml
>
> makes it possible to make any random property into a keyword. There
> are two problems with this method (apart from the philosophical
> difficult of whether this is wise):
>
> 1) Property values can be multiline
> 2) Property values can be of indefinite length
And, IIRC:
3) Property values could contain the keyword delimeter '$', which
leads to either truncation or the need for an escape mechanism
(which itself might not be visually pleasing).
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Received on Wed Jun 9 20:23:14 2004