list separator in config entries

[Thomas Braxton]

On 10/13/07, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:52:25AM -0500, Thomas Braxton wrote:
> > On 10/12/07, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:
> > > the escaping you chose is ... uhm ... ugly. i mean, even uglier than
> > > just tree backslashes in a row.
> >
> > yeah, but 3 backslashes in a row doesn't work, \x5c does
> >
> i think you *really* should re-read my first contribution to this thread
> and everything that followed from it.
>
> > > anyway, a lot of the code looks suspicious, to say the least. i'll
> > > know more when i actually get my hands on it.
> >
> > like what?
> >
> like all the special casing related to lists and separators. it's just
> plain weird. why don't you simply use a "forward parser" like
> KConfigIniBackend::parseConfig() does instead of doing this incredible
> magic?
> i'm sure there is more. weirdness doesn't come alone. ;)


Ok, give me a day or two. ;) even though this'll probably end up in
KConfigIniBackend later anyway.
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