Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:56:15 +0300 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Style strangenesses (was: cvs commit: src/etc rc.subr) Message-ID: <20061127225615.GA90569@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <20061127223644.GV42090@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200611261903.kAQJ3KPp013911@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061127130323.GC77085@comp.chem.msu.su> <20061127223644.GV42090@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:06:44AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 27 November 2006 at 16:03:24 +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > By the way, now the output follows the NetBSD rc.conf style: > > > > # $foo_enable > > foo_enable=YES > > > > Could it be changed even further to match our own rc.conf style? > > I.e.: > > > > # $foo_enable > > foo_enable="YES" > > Can somebody justify this style to me? IMHO, it is uniform a) to make automatic changes easy, and b) to prevent newbie questions on sh(1) syntax: "Who said sh(1)? Forget it and just use the quotes." :-) > It seems unnecessarily > confusing, like Microsoft mail headers with > > To: "'Fred Bloggs'" <fred@nowhere.com> If Microsoft insist that the user's display name is 'Fred Bloggs', with apostrophes, they are free to use the double quotes around it. RFC 2822 discourages unneeded quoted-string in local-part only. :-) -- Yar
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