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'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
