On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:00:57PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote:
> >More like backwards compatibility. If I was doing it over I'd go with
> >"filename # comment" but then we'd break all the existing MANIFESTs and
> >there's no way to detect an old style vs new style.
>
> It could be done with a special comment at the top to indicate "new
> style", but then all new syntax (such as a new construction to allow
> spaces in filenames) would also have to look like comments in the "old
> style" so they'd be ignored. I think it's ugly enough that it's
> probably not worth doing.
Yep. Let sleeping formats lie.
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Michael G Schwern schwern@xxxxxxxxx http://www.pobox.com/~schwern
Don't try the paranormal until you know what's normal.
-- "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Prachett
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