Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> writes: > Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 14:49 -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery:
>> Yeah, both of those were among the other syntax proposals that were >> suggested, and I think one of them was in the document at one point. >> Using backslash is probably the easiest, although it does make parsing >> the files harder. > IMHO allowing both would be the optimum. A real parser would have > problems with both, but a simplistic "parser" that just split the string > by spaces would have a problem. Yeah, that was, as I understand it, the motivation (to allow really simple parsers). I don't know if it's worth revisiting this. I can't say that I particularly liked the outcome we arrived at, but theoretical holes in standards bother me a lot (possibly more than they should). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d39y17ug....@windlord.stanford.edu
