Re: [Libconf-dev] Re: shell template and whitespace around the =

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 21:09, address@hidden wrote:
> I would have tend to think that a more common rule would have been :
> 
> key = \
> continuated line

Yes, indeed.  This is a variant.  One I like more in fact.

> If you are pretty sure that [ a line is the continuation of the previous if it
> start with \s] is the common rule for keyvalue typed file, then I'll include
> it.

Well, there are variants.  I'll bet there are some that follow the rule
to continue with whitespace prefixed lines and some don't.

> That's right. Actually one day we'll have to figure out how to do tempalte
> inheritance...

Ha!  I was thinking that myself.  keyvalue is a subclass of shell,
pretty much.  And variants that continue lines with \ and the end of the
line and continue lines with whitespace prefixed subsequent lines could
all be subclassed from a generic keyvalue.

> But before that, I'd like to implement validation, that is, being able to
> specify that this atom value should be an IP address, and know whate to do if
> it's not...

Good plan.

> and many other stuff :)

:-)

> OK, so to sum up, you suggest to have the keyvalue template to handle 
> multiline
> like we descrived it, because it's a common rule, is that right?

I think it should handle both \ at the end and whitespace prefixed lines
subsequent.  Generic.

b.

-- 
Brian J. Murrell <address@hidden>

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