Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 14:49 -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> writes: > > > Is it to complex to have a syntax that is similar to what the shell > > does? Two solutions pop into my mind. Please let me know, why these are > > not use. You can point me to previous discussions. > > > Idea 1: Use a escape sequence for specifying a whitespace (e.g. "\ " for > > a space). > > > Idea 2: Allow quotation marks. > > 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. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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