Re: [PATCH] comment stripping in config files

[Justin Erenkrantz]
> It's pretty standard practice for Unix shells to treat everything
> after a # as a comment.

Lots of config files insist that # comments must come at the beginning
of the line - sometimes they even stipulate that you can't even have
whitespace before the #.

It may actually be a minority of parsers that allow end-of-line
comments of that form. People shouldn't ever rely on this form without
knowing for sure whether a specific application supports it.