Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinions Wanted - Arrays again :)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:01:33
Message-Id: 20071025225641.GK29642@supernova
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinions Wanted - Arrays again :) by Roy Marples
1 On 22:49 Thu 25 Oct , Roy Marples wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:31 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 > > Is there any way we could avoid these altogether, and instead use
4 > > separate variables for each array element?
5 >
6 > Well, we could prefix with numbers
7 >
8 > array="1.2.3.4 netmask 5.6.7.8;
9 > \*
10 > 'host.name' netmask 1.2.3.4
11 > -I 'option; $FOO with spaces'"
12 >
13 > Would become
14 >
15 > 0_config_eth0="1.2.3.4 netmask 5.6.7.8;"
16 > 1_config_eth0="\*"
17 > 2_config_eth0="'host.name' netmask 1.2.3.4"
18 > 3_config_eth0="-I 'option; $FOO with spaces'"
19
20 I was hoping for some sort of meaningfully named separate variables, not
21 an even messier fake array.
22
23 Thanks,
24 Donnie
25 --
26 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinions Wanted - Arrays again :) Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>