[Developers] quoting in par-file strings
Jian Tao
jtao at cct.lsu.edu
Fri Jun 3 13:09:09 CDT 2005
>That was the only advantage I could think of, and is one reason the tags
>tables are supposed to act like you described, but I am not convinced that
>this is enough to justify the extra coding and documentation; places I've
>seen which allow both tend to have slightly different semantics for the
>two, e.g. in Perl double quoted strings can have substitutions in them and
>single quoted strings are verbatim.
Also true in PHP as far as I know.
Since the Cactus parameter parser is only for generating key-value pairs,
we don't need substitutions at all. If some substitutions are necessary,
the thorn should parse the string itself.
>It may be simpler for people to understand if we just say use double
>quotes, quote double quotes and backslashes, rather than allowing both
>single and double quotes. As Erik said in his reply, it would be good to
>stick to a well established system, so I'd tend to go for a C-like one
>with double quotes.
I will go for it if it will be strictly checked in Cactus.
Cheers,
Jian
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