Alexander Zubkov via Bird-users <bird-users@network.cz> writes: > Hello, Maria! > > You suggestion for blob syntax seems good to me. I think I can try to > prepare patches for that. Only one concern is that it could break some > current configuration files, if they have functions with such names. Maybe > it is better to use some other "brackets" to make it less possible to hit > something? hex<deadbeef> or hex[deadbeef] maybe? Or even something exotic > like hex|deadbeef| ?
How about just using the standard 0x prefix? I.e.: 0xfc00deadbeefcafe -> 8-byte byte string fc00:dead:beef:cafe -> IPv6 address -Toke
