Inheritance

Christoph Maser cmr at financial.com
Mon Feb 5 20:03:00 CET 2007


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John Relph wrote:
> Christoph Maser writes:
> Could we change that to read
> 
> hostgroups	+, linux-servers,web-servers
> 
> 
> this +<string> looks a bit awkward to me. Also considering how you use
> "!" as a unary operator +<string> makes people think the "+" is an
> operator for the following string.
> 
>> Disagreed.  Your proposed syntax is more confusing.  Your syntax makes
>> it look like "+" is itself a hostgroup (albeit with special meaning).
>> The original syntax is well known and understood.  For example, Apache
>> configuration files use the "+" as proposed below.
> 
>> I prefer Ethan's proposed syntax.
> 
>> 	-- John
> 
> Chris

John,

i see your point but i really think the way +<string> and !<string> are
used are not very consistent. I'm not quite certain which parts in
httpd-config you mean? Options? Could you further elaborate this comparison?

Chris

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