Dear Tom, In message <20211022144759.GG3577824@bill-the-cat> you wrote: > > > Any escape character is also a legal name character. > > I am struggling to have a non-meme reaction to this. Perhaps the best > step is just earlier on in the series note that variable names need to > fit within the broadly and commonly used set of characters and assorted > funny business you can do historically needs to be migrated.
Indeed I think this is the most reasonable approach. Like you cannot write any aritrary code in plain C and have to fall back to assembler in a few places, this patch series should simply not claim to be able to support all legal environment settings. It is a convenience tool, and it is OK if it has a few restrictions, like for the character set of supported variable names. But: 1) These restrictions must be clearly documented, both in the commit message and in the related documentation/readme. 2) There should be another, more primitive way to generate environment settings without these restrictions.. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BASIC.
