svn commit: r322976 - head/emulators/hfs

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 16 02:42:20 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 08:54:59PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 01:21:10AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > It is actually not bogus at all. ;-)  This form of embracing words and
> > short phrases is used quite a lot in our documentation and commentary.
> 
> That may be fine for documentation, but for metadata, these are simply
> non-matching quotes.

Hmm, yes, that makes sense.  On the other hand, textual knobs like this
one (also COMMENT, BROKEN, IGNORED, ...) are normally unquoted, and also
often carry an odd number of quotes.  However, most tools deal fine with
this, taking care of proper quoting/escaping themselves.

./danfe


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