[Freeciv-Dev] Re: extremely preliminary server command parsing

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:09:02PM -0400, Justin Moore wrote:
> 
> > > - blank lines or lines whose first character is a '#' are ignored (done)
> >
> > At present, the ruleset code allows '#' comments to follow data
> > in some places.  It would be nice to have this, but '#' can occur
> > within data.
> 
>    Out of curiousity, could you provide an example?

A directory name, is my standard example.
Not that they are likely or necessary, but how to prevent them?

> > > - lines that end with a newline end a comment (this includes line
> > >     continuated commands)
> >
> > Don't all lines end with a newline?
> 
>    Sorry, s/comment/command/.  And it should have been "lines that don't
> have a continuation character as the last non-whitespace character end a
> command."

Yes.  I've noticed that Unix ultilities vary in how exactly the \
line continuation works.  Another argument for Arien's approach ...

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Reinier