Hi Wolfgang,
On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 at 08:10, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Tom,
In message 20211018133728.GQ7964@bill-the-cat you wrote:
And please see also my comments about changing the autostart functionality for the user.
Perhaps we should just make "+" an illegal character in the variable name, for consistency?
And break backward compatibility? I'd rather see a better definition of the syntax of the environment files, plus maybe a more powerful parser.
I mean, there is no technical reason to forbid the '+' character - and then it's only at the end of the variable name.
Hm... I can't find it right now but did I not also read about other restrictions to variable names, like they must noch begin with '_' when using this new tool?
Yes but I took that out (I think in v6). I'll update the commit message.
I feel it is wrong to place new restrictions on something that was constant for 21 years, just because our parser cannot parse it...
We need the + thing and perhaps we should ask people to avoid punctuation, etc? But for now I'm not requiring it in this series, apart from +
Regards, Simon