Re: [PATCH] comment stripping in config files

On 4/27/06, John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> wrote:
> Garrett Rooney wrote:
> > I've got a patch to fix this by stripping comments from values in the
> > config parser code, but I hesitate to change the behavior of this sort
> > of thing since someone might depend on it. Does anyone want to tell
> > me "you're being paranoid, this is insane, just commit it"?
> >
>
> The config parser should be 100% responsible for stripping comments.
> The consumer of the parsed configuration shouldn't have to worry about
> anything except valid key/value pairs.
>
> /you're being paranoid, this is insane, just commit it/

While I'd like to agree, there has been some disent about this point
on IRC, I imagine someone with such an opinion will post here soon...

-garrett

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Received on Thu Apr 27 20:36:50 2006