On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 1:16 AM Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2024-03-21 06:11, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > It should be possible to rephrase it to be more definite, while > > dropping the final sentence altogether. Perhaps: > > > > Whitespace surrounding `name`, `=` and `value` is ignored. If > > `value` is surrounding by double quotation marks (`"`), all > > characters within the quoted string are retained verbatim, > > including whitespace. Comments starting with either `#` or `;` and > > extending to the end of line are discarded. A line that defines a > > value can be continued to the next line by ending it with a `\`; > > the backslash and the end-of-line are stripped. > > Looking good to me, thanks. I'll include it into the v5, with > a small grammar issue fixed. For completeness, I should mention that I intentionally reordered the topics so that the most common/important ones are mentioned earlier rather than later; i.e. (1) surrounding whitespace ignored, (2) double-quoted value, (3) comments, (4) `\` line-splicing with.
