Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > Edge cases like this really make me wonder what the benefit of implicit > bools is in our config files. > > So... why do we have them in the first place? Is there even a single > good reason? There isn't any good reason to introduce such a syntax if we were desigining the configuration file format from scratch. It was added because originally Linus thought it was a cute syntax, and these days a lot lot more importantly, it is kept working because you will break a lot of existing configuration files that were hand tweaked if you remove the support suddenly.
