Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline robustness

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You wrote:
>>   $id = $something;
>> 
>> Here $id$ is expanded, causing your code to be damaged. Certainly, I
>> don't want to remember to "quote" those lines when writing.
> 
> Not a problem at all, since RCS-like tag can have only two formats:
> $Arch$ and $Arch: 53bb84c6-dee0-46c6-a275-2db144993d89$, which very
> probably no Perl program already has.  To find this tag, arch should
> look only for the following regexp /\$Arch[\$:]/.
> 
> However, the current "arch-tag:" without delimiters can have more
> occurrences beside the intended for arch, and so arch may find the
> wrong one.

Well, this would reduce the probable number of occurences, but you still
need some sticky flag to disable keyword expansion (you may never know,
and for binary files of course).

But, as sayd by others, if it doesn't change, really don't makes much
sense to me.

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