Folks, Dale Johnson from MERIT brings up the issue of allowing "#" style comments in objects between attributes. From an implementation point of view this is *very* simple. Any major objections? The database sw would simply ignore them. Note that they would have to be on a line by themselves, NOT inside an attribute. An example would be: person: Marten Terpstra address: RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC) address: PRIDE Project address: Kruislaan 409 address: NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam address: Netherlands # This is some comment phone: +31 20 592 5064 fax-no: +31 20 592 5090 e-mail: Marten.Terpstra@ripe.net nic-hdl: MT2 # And this as well notify: marten@ripe.net changed: marten@ripe.net 941128 source: RIPE which would be processed normally, ie the # lines ignored. They would not end up in the database of course. Any major showstoppers here? -Marten ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 14:49:50 -0500 From: "Dale S. Johnson" <dsj@merit.edu> To: Marten@ripe.net cc: Tony.Bates@ripe.net Subject: # Comment characters in templates Marten, What do you think of the idea of allowing #Comments in templates that are processed by auto-dbm? I bring this up privately because it seems like something that must have caused some discussion before if it isn't all ready implemented. The arguments are the same as for commenting programs: objects (especially aut-num objects) can be huge and complex now. Even if the comments aren't preserved in the storage and output formats, it would make lots of sense for people to keep comments in their original versions on their own machines, and not have to sed these out before they send them to auto-dbm. Is there all ready a history on this question? Or could it be done without discussion? Or if it needs discussion, what list would be appropriate? --Dale ------- End of Forwarded Message