Re: Suggested dual human/binary interface for proc/devfs

[George Bonser]

On 9 Apr 2000, Russ Allbery wrote:

> This is a good point to consider, but I've also found that when
> non-programmers try to use those configuration files, they get confused by
> the semicolons and keeping the newline is more intuitive for them.  But I
> don't have a lot of experience here, so I could be drawing incorrect
> conclusions.

It just means with the semicolons:

group0 {
	item1=x;
	item2=y;
	subgroup1{
		item1=a;
		item2=b;
	};
	item3=c;
};
group1 {
	item1=z;
};

Is the same as:

group0{item1=x;item2=y;subgroup1{item1=a;item2=b};item3=c;};group1{item1=z;};

You can just ignore whitespace completely.