Jeff Schroeder wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Dmitri Pal dpal@redhat.com wrote:
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I had a long discussion with John about this at the end of the day. I think that we managed to come to some other consensus. If I got it right the rules of thumb are the following: a) Do not invent new meaning for the characters that are already used to have some other special meaning. Be consistent with use and meaning of the characters. b) Do not invent new syntax. Pick one of the exiting ones.
One of which existing ones? Are you going to be using ini such as RFC822 or are you making up something new? NIH is in general a bad policy.
RFC822 is limiting, it does not allow for a way to express the use cases that I want to support: a) Folding lines without preserving <NL> b) Folding lines with preserving <NL>
I am looking for something that would allow me to do this. If you know how to express these two cases using rules defined in 822 I am all ears. If not I am looking for some solution that would be least confusing. I am not aware of any other RFC. If you do please point me to the right direction.
So this effort is to try to identify a convention that seems logical and intuitive to use and can handle these two use cases.