On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 09:37:30PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > This is less a problem, as here it's clear that you want a boolean result,
> > > > but something like "FOO=n" is really a string compare and FOO could be of
> > > > any type (that 99% of all symbols are boolean/tristate symbols doesn't
> > > > really help).
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it be better to require a string or hex to always be quoted
> > > like "somestring"?
> >
> > What about normal numbers? I don't think requiring quotes everywhere for
> > this is a good idea.
>
> And numbers (both decimal and hex) can easily be distinguished from y, n, and m
> anyway.
Sounds reasonable.
This leaves strings.
Could you point me to one single place in the kernel where a string
constant is used in the dependencies of another symbol?
If it's that rare, requiring quotes shouuldn't be that much of a burden.
I see six places where quotes are used for y/n/m, but they should be
trivial to fix.
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
cu
Adrian
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