On Jul 15, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
...
and therefore is it just convention that prevents a recipe from
splitting on other characters too?)
Yes. In fact, if values can have spaces in them, then a option may
be split on new lines. For example the eggs option in many
recipes, which should really be named "requirements", is split on
new lines because the individual values can have spaces in them.
So what happens if I use += or -= with the eggs option?
(and I've wanted to do just this in the past, but didn't even know I
could...)
You'll get garbage.
Jim
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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation
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