[Dovecot] Comments in dovcot.conf files

[Marc Perkel]

John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:43:55PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
>   
>> Suggestion for comments. Why not support this syntax for comments as 
>> well as #
>>
>> /*
>> comments
>> comments
>> */
>>
>> It will allow for neater looking config files.
>>     
>
> 	It's not a programming language, it's a config file.  Standard
> 	comment syntax is '#' (or ';' in the case of bind, which is an
> 	odd-ball).
>
> 	Given these 2 examples:
>
> 	/*
> 	foo 
> 	bar
> 	baz
> 	*/
>
> 	or
>
> 	# foo
> 	# bar
> 	# baz
>
> 	I personally feel that the latter is more clearly read and
> 	understood.  It also makes it much simpler to parse from a
> 	shell or perl or whatever.
>
>
>
>   

I'm suggesting using BOTH.



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