On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> | Leading and trailing white space on each item in a list is ignored.
> in spec.txt 6.15 I *stupidly* believed whitespace to be irrelevant in
> lists and thought that
> hostlist foo = 127.0.0.1 : ::::1
> and
> hostlist bar = 127.0.0.1:::::1
> would be equivalent.[1] However, they are not (Tested in 4.50), while
> the former works as expected the latter ("127.0.0.1:::::1") does not.
I'll improve the wording of the manual. What it means is "leading and
trailing white space on each item in a list is ignored, after the list
has been split up into separate items". --------------
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In other words, spaces can be important while the splitting is
happening, in order to disambiguate sequences of colons.
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