Re: iSCSI: Re: range separator

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Luben Tuikov wrote:

> Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
> > Won't the parser already have to have figured out the context anyway? We
> > have to know if the key is: 1) valid, and 2) appropriate for this phase
> > already, don't we? After figuring that out, is it hard to know if we
> > expect a string or one or more numbers?
>
> Yes, of course. I was merely trying to show that
> we cannot escape from the variable's context.

Ahhh.... Ok.

> Once we all recognize this fact we'd see that
> we could overload certain symbols to denote
> ranges. I mean certain, since overloading the comma
> will not be that wise as in the _future_ we may
> want to have a list of ranges (e.g. for choosing
> a bit as in ``OurBitRange=1-4,13-16'').

Agreed, ',' would be bad.

Take care,

Bill