Re: [xri] host-meta comments

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Breno de Medeiros <breno@google.com> wrote:

> While /host-meta is intended to be parsed by machines and not
> human-readable content, it is often the case that users eyeball such content
> for clues. For instance:
>
> 1. Developer is writing and debugging a library to parse host-meta files.
> 2. Developer is looking at /host-meta examples to get clues on how to write
> one for his site.
>
> Being able to add human-readable comments on site-meta can be useful for
> such tasks. It also helps to preserve 'institutional memory' by
> documentation in place, which is often the only one that developers can
> locate.
>
> Should there be a simple mechanism for line comments in site-meta?
>

+1 for comments.

I propose that any line that starts with # (possibly preceded by whitespace)
is a comment.

Dirk.


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