[PATCH v9 3/7] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Oct 22 16:47:59 CEST 2021


On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:08:05AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Tom,
> 
> In message <20211021160311.GC3577824 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
> > 
> > How bad does it make the parser look if we allow trailing + in variable
> > names, by escaping them?  It's seemingly the substantive objection at
> > this point.
> 
> Any escape character is also a legal name character.

I am struggling to have a non-meme reaction to this.  Perhaps the best
step is just earlier on in the series note that variable names need to
fit within the broadly and commonly used set of characters and assorted
funny business you can do historically needs to be migrated.

-- 
Tom
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