Re: syncrepl's "retry" option

[masarati@aero.polimi.it]

> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> --On Wednesday, April 21, 2010 5:59 PM +0200 masarati@aero.polimi.it
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The docs only present the "," because that's the preferred way.  The
>>> other
>>> forms are supported mainly for historical reasons.  You should stick
>>> with
>>> the documentation.  The tests should use the documented form.
>>
>> "," is historical...  The FAQ entry is all that needs fixing.
>
> Since we normally use white space for other delimiters, I think "," is
> actually the better choice here. Anything that requires additional quoting
> is
> generally a bad idea...

I concur.  In general (e.g. attribute lists) we use commas.  However, it's
essentially a matter of documentation: the code will have to support both
syntaxes, otherwise so many configurations would break.

p.