Re: [U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format

Marian Balakowicz wrote:

I was thinking of a syntax that would be similar to regular data sections which are enclosed in [] braces. Something like:

prop = {/path/to/file};

This one overloads {} based primarily on whether there's an equal sign before it... a bit icky. Plus, sooner or later we'll run out of special characters to assign meaning to, and we'll become Perlish in the process. :-)

I went with text-between slashes as it's an already-established keyword marker.

or prop = [file:/path/to/file];

This is ambiguous; file: will be scanned as a label unless we give precedence to it as a keyword, and I don't think we want to go down the path of reserved words when we have other mechanisms available to separate the namespaces.

-Scott