Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 05:06:13PM +0200, Martin Björklund wrote:
> >
> > I think that any change in an argument string is an editorial change.
> >
> > For example, compare these two changes:
> >
> > A1. description "a server.";
> > A2. description "A server.";
> >
> > B1. description "A server.";
> > B2. description "A server.";
> >
> > These are editorial changes, and thus the revision should be changed.
> >
> > Note however that the following change might look like an editorial
> > whitespace change in the argument, but in fact it is not:
> >
> > C1.
> > description
> > "A server and
> > its data.";
> >
> > C2.
> > description
> > "A server and
> > its data.";
>
> +1
>
> I agree since whitespace outside YANG strings is insignificant.
>
> Lets raise this to the next level. What about the following?
>
> D1. description "A server.";
> D2. description "A server."; // not very descriptive
>
> E1. description "A server."; // not very descriptive
> E2. // not very descriptive
> description "A server.";
I think that comments should be treated as insignificant whitespace.
Comments in YANG are not tied to a specific statement, so it is
difficult to e.g. translate them to YIN properly. For example to
which statement does the comment below belong?
container foo {
container bar; /* beware */ container baz;
}
/martin
>
> /js
>
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