On 7 Apr 2007 13:19:06 -0700, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Joel Andres Granados wrote:
> The module also allows the comments to appear in the same line as the
> "name = value" constructs. The only difference being that this is only
> possible with ";" and not with "#" character. I did not see this in the
> documentation but this is how it is behaving.
Yes, it's not documented. There is only a comment in the source code:
# ';' is a comment delimiter only if it
follows
# a spacing character
I think it's either a bug in the code or in the documentation.
Yep, IMO its a weirdness in the behavior that is not documented.
QUESTION...So the question is:
> Can you use "#" and ";" as comment characters? and if so why does the
> "#" not apply for the same situations as the ";"?
If you follow the documentation, comments are ONLY allowed to start a
line.
The actual implementation discards any text following a <space>;
sequence.
Yep. This is just one of the situations where the documentation is
different from the actual behavior.
Just for reference:
> On the RFC 822 <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html> (a document
> referenced in the documentation) there is a mention of ";" being used as
> comment character but not necessarily at the beginning of the line.
RFC822 uses ";" to include comments in the syntax rules, not for
comments in the actual message headers (parenthesis are used there).
Yep. Here I just wanted to stress that in the RFC it states that the
comment doesn't necessarily have to be at the beginning of the line.
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