Re: Parsing config files in a directory

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parsing config files in a directory
Date: 2009-10-29 14:46:12
Message-ID: 162867790910290746q1e243c6dteca053400311af6e@mail.gmail.com
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>>
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>
> Really, they don't know any Perl or Python or Java either? Maybe.
>
> Anyway, it seems to me a whole lot better than inventing a new thing  that
> makes "custom_variable_class" as something to append to
> "custom_variable_classes". If you're going to insist on using "append foo =
> 'x'" at least let it apply to the list that is actually being appended to,
> so we don't need to keep track of singular and plural forms. That's the part
> of your suggestion I really object to.
>

I have to agree with you. From language view is += syntax better.
Actually, i would to see some more verbose syntax. There are two
significantly different behave and only one difference is one symbol.
But I don't know better syntax.

Regards
Pavel

> cheers
>
> andrew
>

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