Re: Parsing config files in a directory

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 12:31 +0000, Thom Brown wrote:
> 2009/10/29 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>:

> > Why not allow something like += or .= instead of the = to denote appending
> > to a list?
> >
> >   custom_variable_classes += 'x'
> >
> > seems a whole lot nicer to me.
> >
>
> I would see that as making the config more programatic so while that
> might not look too weird to a developer, it could be confusing for a
> DBA or system administrator.  I don't think that's how config files
> should work, and it also adds gotchas like the following.
>

The DBAs I know would think we were absolutely off our rocker for such a
thing. At least it would make great humor at presentations.

Joshua D. Drake



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