RE: [Cfengine-develop] Re: Homework

[Andrews, Martin]

Well heck. If others are okay with serious mangling of the syntax then I am
happy too. I still cling to having a preprocessor generate my cfengine
config files centrally so making the cfengine parser smaller and simpler
would benefit me (removing unnecessary complexity on the end cfengine runs
is good). Probably should target a translator for old scripts though.

Martin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke A. Kanies [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:38 AM
> To: Cfengine Developers
> Subject: Re: [Cfengine-develop] Re: Homework
> 
> 
> 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.)
>