On Monday, March 11, 2024 2:57 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: >Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] config: add --comment option to add a comment > >* Dragan Simic: > > > I mean, perhaps the whole thing with the tab characters may not be > the right example, but I just wanted to point out that the >more > major an open-source project is, the more discussion is often > required. > >Oh, I have no qualms discussing things, but over the last 40+ years, nothing good has ever come from debating the pros and cons of >tabs and spaces. At least that's my personal experience. My take would be that all whitespace is ignored, but if you want a tab or other character in a value, be explicit about it: variable = "value\ts" # comment where all whitespace and comments are dropped from the parse to be functionally equivalent to variable=value(TAB)s when processing. Implicit quoting arbitrary whitespace can be interpreted in an ambiguous way. That's basically what the C parser does. --Randall
