Re: [PATCH] comment stripping in config files

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> If we add comment stripping for values to the config parser, how would you add
> a value with # characters?

The config parser is already ignoring lines _starting_ with the
octothorpe[1], so why is it such a stretch to apply the very well
recognized standard of treating:

        all text from the # to the end of the line is a comment

to data lines. If someone ever comes up with a need to escape that (or
the plethora of other characters with special meaning, like '=' for
example), the config parser is going to have to be changed anyways.

> Personally, I think it was a mistake to not have a general
> escaping mechanism in the config file in the first place, but that's
> hard to undo now.

Why don't we simply convert the config files to XML, since we aren't
using that for working copy files anymore (like conservation of energy).
<duck>

John

1. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm

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