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From: arisawa <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] blank line in /lib/ndb/local
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:07:54 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E54A7C58-F525-4B25-9B69-1EF3ECC39122@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7fcf3aaeca085f6e7666a8bfbd4a316@lilly.quanstro.net>

yes, your right.
the manual says what the code does.
however I don’t 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.

> 2015/11/10 13:05、erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> のメール:
> 
> On Mon Nov  9 20:03:06 PST 2015, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
>> hello,
>> 
>> your blank line doesn’t have a white space.
>> 
>>> 2015/11/10 12:02、erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> のメール:
>>> 
>>> On Mon Nov  9 04:32:24 PST 2015, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> manual ndb(6) says: "Each line starting without white space starts a new tuple. Lines starting with # are comments.”
> 
> exactly.  that's what the manual says.  an otherwise blank like with only whitespace would
> fit the definition of a line starting with whitespace, therefore not starting a new tuple.
> 
> - erik
> 




  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-10  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-09 12:29 arisawa
2015-11-10  3:02 ` erik quanstrom
2015-11-10  4:01   ` arisawa
2015-11-10  4:05     ` erik quanstrom
2015-11-10  5:07       ` arisawa [this message]
2015-11-10  5:14         ` erik quanstrom

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