On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 3:04 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@toke.dk> wrote:
> 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? > It is already taken for integers. :) > > I.e.: > > 0xfc00deadbeefcafe -> 8-byte byte string > fc00:dead:beef:cafe -> IPv6 address > > -Toke >
