From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-30 00:49:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eusc.inter.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Volkert Barr Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 09:49:58 +0200 Organization: TU Berlin, Fachbereich Informatik Message-ID: <3CF5D9A6.7C50A70D@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <39ee2480.0205282322.3bbd4673@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0205291105.31656da1@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bolero.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.cs.tu-berlin.de 1022744999 8872 130.149.19.1 (30 May 2002 07:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.tu-berlin.de NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 May 2002 07:49:59 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24989 Date: 2002-05-30T07:49:59+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > volkert.barr@freenet.de (Volkert) wrote in message news:<39ee2480.0205282322.3bbd4673@posting.google.com>... > > The Ada Version should be a bit more powerfull. e.g store > > triples of (Scope,Key,Value), may be in be form you described > > above: Scope.Key=Value > > In this scheme, do you think "scope"s should be flat (1 level only), > or should they be hierarchal (like Ada packages or the Microsoft > registry)? Flat should be ok, but why not an hierachical structure: ([Scope], Key, Value) As in Ada the level should be seperated by dots (.). This kind of structure is very easy to parse. Volkert