On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Breno de Medeiros <br...@google.com> wrote:
> While /host-meta is intended to be parsed by machines and not > human-readable content, it is often the case that users eyeball such content > for clues. For instance: > > 1. Developer is writing and debugging a library to parse host-meta files. > 2. Developer is looking at /host-meta examples to get clues on how to write > one for his site. > > Being able to add human-readable comments on site-meta can be useful for > such tasks. It also helps to preserve 'institutional memory' by > documentation in place, which is often the only one that developers can > locate. > > Should there be a simple mechanism for line comments in site-meta? > +1 for comments. I propose that any line that starts with # (possibly preceded by whitespace) is a comment. Dirk. > > -- > --Breno > > +1 (650) 214-1007 desk > +1 (408) 212-0135 (Grand Central) > MTV-41-3 : 383-A > PST (GMT-8) / PDT(GMT-7) >