Hi Wolfgang, On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 at 08:10, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > > Dear Tom, > > In message <20211018133728.GQ7964@bill-the-cat> you wrote: > > > > > And please see also my comments about changing the autostart > > > functionality for the user. > > > > Perhaps we should just make "+" an illegal character in the variable > > name, for consistency? > > And break backward compatibility? I'd rather see a better > definition of the syntax of the environment files, plus maybe a more > powerful parser. > > I mean, there is no technical reason to forbid the '+' character - > and then it's only at the end of the variable name. > > Hm... I can't find it right now but did I not also read about other > restrictions to variable names, like they must noch begin with '_' > when using this new tool?
Yes but I took that out (I think in v6). I'll update the commit message. > > > I feel it is wrong to place new restrictions on something that was > constant for 21 years, just because our parser cannot parse it... We need the + thing and perhaps we should ask people to avoid punctuation, etc? But for now I'm not requiring it in this series, apart from + Regards, Simon
