wor...@ariadne.com (Dale R. Worley) wrote: > Martin Bjorklund <m...@tail-f.com> writes: > > Do you have an suggestion for what to write? These kinds of > > multi-line strings are almost always 'description' statements, > > used for human consumption. It is not clear to me what the warning > > would be. > > >> So you can't write an isolated CR in most of a Yang module. But am I > >> correct in understanding that you *can* write an isolated CR inside a > >> single-quoted string (and presumably, a double-quoted string)? > > > > Yes. > > I think all of this could be summarized well by putting a paragraph that > tells everything about line ends in Yang at the end of section 6. > Section 6 already deals with the valid characaters for Yang, how they're > encoded, etc. > > Lines in a YANG module may end with a carriage return-line feed > combination or with a line feed alone. A carriage return that is not > followed by a line feed may only appear inside a quoted string. Note > that carriage returns and line feeds that appear inside quoted strings > become part of the value of the string without modification; the value > of a multi-line quoted string contains the same form of line ends as > those lines of the YANG module. > > In a way, that doesn't add much to the specification.
Right, it provides additional clarification. Thank you for this text! /martin _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
