Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:53:33 +1100 From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: msmith@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), config@freebsd.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel config metasyntax Message-ID: <199701281253.XAA15463@nemeton.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199701280423.OAA07019@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:53:14 +1030 (CST) Michael Smith wrote: > Later, anything that cares about options can access all of this and > make up its own mind; the parser should not need to know or care > what the attributes and their valus are.) In practice with tools implemented this way there is usually little semantic checking, so typos such as incorrectly spelt attributes are not detected and the Wrong Thing happens. Tools with more integrated semantic checks (typical with yacc :) don't have this problem. If you use TCL, please validate input carefully. Giles
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