[augeas-devel] Re: [PATCH] Support empty comments, like lines beginning with "; " or "#" but without any more text

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi David,

|--==> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:56:22 +0000, David Lutterkort <lutter at redhat.com> said:

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  DL> To fix this, there are two things to do: (1) add the missing typecheck
  DL> for the '?' operator so that typechecking actually checks the current
  DL> behavior (2) make the tree -> file transformation much smarter so that
  DL> it takes the value of nodes into account and so that '(store /[a-z]+/)?'
  DL> becomes legal.

  DL> (1) is very easy to implement, but will cause a lot of headache to fix
  DL> up existing lenses; (2) is a little harder, and I need to think about
  DL> that some.

Thanks for explanation. If (2) is going to take a bit, should a ticket
be opened for it?

Ciao,

Free