Re: [Webware-devel] config file layout schemes for WebKit and other components

[Tavis R. <ta...@ca...>]

On Friday 07 December 2001 11:26, Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
> On Friday 07 December 2001 11:04 am, Geoffrey Talvola wrote:
> > >The plan I was changing for Configurable was simply to do an
> > > exec, unless the first char was a {, in which case I would do
> > > an eval.
> >
> > Just make sure to chop off whitespace first. =A0I don't know if you
> > want to scan for comments before the first { or not.
>
> Agreed. I planned on making the assignment style the de facto style
> over dictionaries, so while some extra effort is nice, we don't
> have to be perfect.

Why not just go for only the assignment style and get rid of the old=20
dictionary parsing method completely?  Transitioning an app from one=20
to the other is a matter of a few minutes.  Keeping both around just=20
makes the code more complex and brittle.