On Sunday 15 October 2006 11:14, Philip Hazel wrote:
> The next release of Exim allows you to make up your own names for ACL
> variables, and there is no (reasonable :-) limit to how many you can
> have.

*bows*, yay!  I've discovered that I can hold them all in memory while 
actively working on the config, but coming back to it after a few months can 
be hairy ("what's acl_m7, again?).  Custom names will be handy.  How will 
they be named?  acl_m_foo, acl_c_bar?  Or will they be more freeform names 
that need the scope declared?

What do you think of the hash/array variable idea?  I suppose unlimited custom 
names would^Wmight work in this instance, but in some instances hashes are 
cleaner.

I changed would to might, because I'm supposing there will be character 
restrictions on the names, still...(i.e. can a variable name contain a @?  
What about an =?  }?  Will there be functions to escape/unescape things?)  
Again, hashes seem cleaner as they would (probably, this is an assumption) 
not have to be as restricted.

Cheers,
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