From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 21:14:50 -0800 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <66d7aba3c5f1729cd587fc894d1ade50@lilly.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <6A85F25B-95D9-4508-8820-175573B2337C@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] blank line in /lib/ndb/local Topicbox-Message-UUID: 76179744-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Nov 9 21:10:14 PST 2015, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: > yes, your right. > the manual says what the code does. > however I don=E2=80=99t think it is a good idea to make sense in white = spaces within blank line. > probably the code does not suppose blank lines within ndb entry. >=20 i don't think it's a good idea, either. however, changing it is not of m= uch value. fwiw, there is a program ndb/vrfy that comes with a yacc grammar. i wote= it because with 30 people fiddling with ndb files, there were occasional mis= takes and it was nice to have a way to automaticly email folks with a list of p= otential ndb errors. if this program doesn't already whine about this iffy construct, i'd welc= ome a patch! - erik