Am Montag, den 15.06.2015, 15:36 +0200 schrieb B: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 09:32:39AM -0400, Steve Matzura wrote: > > What is the reasoning behind that `<' anyway? It just appears so > > odd > > that a path should have that at its front. > > > I would guess: > - make it clearer it's a file and not a string > - follow similar syntax as input redirection in sh/perl/.. > > B
I think it's just to make the code of the config parser more simple. So these 2 variables don't need special handling, because the most users want to directly specify a file in there. Where all other stuff in the config doestn't by default specify a file.