Andreas Degert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is not the point; of course just the parsing, the syntactical > portion, is rather easy. Else, how should a program like samba parse > it's config files? Even if it's a complex embedded language, by > definition its syntax can be parsed, and if it's for a program you > even have the source for it. The problem lies in understanding the > semantics from the users point of view, so that it can be presented > to the user in a reasonable form. This is what the parser of a > configuration program has to achieve.
Hmm.. what you're talking about here is a logical grouping mechanism which can bleed over into adjacent areas. The logical grouping mechanism is supportable (but you can't nest such groups). I'm not so sure that it's a good idea to support the bleeding aspect, but that can also be supported by explicitly representing the sequence of clumps of entries. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
