Re: [Cfengine-develop] Re: Homework

[Mark Burgess]

On  6 Mar, Luke A. Kanies wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> 
>> However, are we all agreed that strings should always be quoted
>> somehow? That's a bigger difference, to my mind, since it affects
>> things like signal=kill.
> 
> I think this is a _great_ idea.  Current treatment of strings by the
> parser is quite complicated and differs considerably depending on
> where the string is used.
> 
> I'd very much like it if all strings had to be quoted; this includes
> things like the filenames in 'editfiles' sections.  Currently the
> cfengine tokenizer is very dependent on syntax to figure out what kind
> of token it should return; quoting strings would solve a lot of that. 
> (And having a line termination character like ';' would solve a lot
> more.)

I'm not so sure about this. There is a logical and syntactical
difference between a path to a file and a quoted string.

M

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